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Set in Nazi-occupied France in 1941, and based on a true story, Calm at Sea follows a young Frenchman who is sentenced to death, along with 26 of his country...
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- Ulrich Matthes
- Volker Schlöndorff
Calm at Sea. 2011 · 1 hr 36 min. TV-MA. War · Drama · Foreign/International. During World War II, a young man witnesses the horrors of the Nazi invasion in France, which leads him to take a stand and join in the resistance. Starring: Marc Barbe Léo-Paul Salmain Jean-Marc Roulot Martin Loizillon Ulrich Matthes.
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 96 min
- January 1, 2011
Synopsis. 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.
Permalink. On 20th of October 1941, three young communists shoot the German commander Hotz in the French port of Nantes. As a reprisal and deterrent, a furious Hitler orders the execution of a hundred prisoners, mostly communists and resisters. Among them, the 17 year old Guy Môquet, the son of a communist member of Parliament.
