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Calm at Sea (French: La mer à l'aube) is a 2011 German / French drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The film depicts the events leading to the 1941 execution of a group of French communists, including the 17-year-old Guy Môquet, as retaliation for the assassination of a German officer by the French resistance.
Cast
Léo-Paul Salmain as Guy Môquet
Marc Barbé as Jean-Pierre Timbaud
Ulrich Matthes as Ernst Jünger
Jean-Marc Roulot as Lucien Touya
Sébastien Accart as Bernard Lecornu
Martin Loizillon as Claude Lalet
Jacob Matschenz as Soldat Otto
Reception
The film was mostly positively received. Jörg Schöning sums it up in Der Spiegel: “Schlöndorff's film, which is not particularly interested in the more recent questions of humanity, thankfully concentrates on the concrete. The sea in the morning is the stroke of luck of a documentary game: the people, their actions and words are historically documented, the consequences of their actions are highly dramatic - and still trigger considerable emotions today.”
Filmgazette editor Wolfgang Nierlins judged: "Schlöndorff's film shows the fateful course of events, relentlessly aggravated by human arbitrariness and blind coincidence as a tragic event." He understands Calm at Sea as “a differentiated plea for humanity” and awards 8 out of 10 possible stars.
References
External links
Calm at Sea at IMDb
Calm at Sea at Rotten Tomatoes
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