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Calm at Sea (2012)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Overview
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Ulrich Matthes | Jean-Marc Roulot | Marc Barbé | Jacob Matschenz | Harald Schrott | Christopher Buchholz | Arielle Dombasle | Philippe Résimont | Charlie Nelson | Martin Loizillon | Sébastien Accart | Gilles Arbona | Arnaud Simon | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Luc Florian | André Jung | Konstantin Frolov | Mario Irrek | Walter Shnorkell | Thomas Arnold | Wigand Witting | Finnegan Oldfield | Tristan Robin | Christian Diaz | Thierry Levaret | Nicolas Haudelaine | Victoire Du Bois | Leo-Paul Salmain