Calm at Sea

6.3 / 10

(15 votes)

October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.

Country:

France,

Germany

Genre:

War,

Drama,

History

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

2012

Director:

Volker Schlöndorff

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Company:

Provobis Film,

Les Canards Sauvages,

7e Apache Film

Cast:
Ulrich Matthes

Ernst Jünger

Jean-Marc Roulot

Lucien Touya

Marc Barbé

Jean Pierre Thimbaud

Jacob Matschenz

Soldat Otto

Harald Schrott

Oberst Speidel

Crew:
Volker Schlöndorff

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Writer

Valentin Rodriguez

Assistant Director

Bruno Petit

Producer

Bruno Coulais

Music