Calm at Sea
| Title | Calm at Sea |
| Publication Type | Film |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Schöndorff, Volker |
| Running Time | 90 minutes |
| Distributor | Corinth Films |
| Country | United States |
| Medium | color |
| Publication Language | French, German |
| Abstract | Based on a true story, Calm at Sea explores how prisoners of war live with impending death in Nazi-occupied France. After three Communists assassinate a German officer in Nantes in 1941, Hitler orders the death of 150 prisoners, including 17 year old Guy Môquet whose letter to his parents became a powerful tool of memory in postwar France. The film also focuses on how German officers at Châteaubriant, an internment camp, wrestle with their orders to show how they lose their moral compass during war. |
| Cast | Léo Paul Salmain Ulrich Matthes Marc Barbé Martin Loizillon Sébastien Accart Jean-Pierre Daroussin |
| Credits | Produced by Bruno Petit Directed and Written by Volker Schlöndorff Cinematography by Lubomir Bakchev Edited by Susanne Hartmann Music by Bruno Coulais |
| Genre | Drama |
| Translated Title | The Sea At Dawn |
| Original Publication | La Mer à l'aube |
| Full Text | Screenwriters used archival research, including diaries, letters, and reports, as well as writing by poet and author Ernst Jünger, French journalist Pierre-Louis Basse. and German novelist Heinrich Böll. Jünger was a participant of the film's events. |
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- Military & Military Systems
- Prisoners (of War)
- Military & Society
- Military & Gender
- Military & Men/Masculinity
- War & Politics
- War, Politics/Citizenship & Gender
- War, Politics/Citizenship & Men/Masculinity
- War & Gender
- War & Men
- War and Religion
- War, Gender & Home Front
- War & Violence
- War, Violence & Gender
- War, Violence & Men/Masculinity
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