Calm at Sea

Calm at Sea

Actors:  Léo-Paul Salmain, Ulrich Matthes, Jean-Marc Roulot, Marc Barbé, Jacob Matschenz, Harald Schrott Directors:  Volker Schlöndorff

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...