Calm at Sea
2012 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 849 VOTES · DIR. 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.
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00:00:14 A fiction based on contemporary documents
00:03:47 because his father had been arrested.
00:07:51 - Heil Hitler! - Good morning.
00:11:11 You get out tomorrow.
00:13:59 We have a big problem.
00:16:41 Let's say communists, then
00:19:42 That's our real enemy.
00:23:37 There's no thinking here! No intelligence! Understood?
00:26:17 You should get that abscess treated by the dentist in Chateaubriant.
00:29:22 I didn't take my exams
00:32:50 I'm confiscating the wireless!
00:36:02 So what do we do?
00:40:15 No, stop!
00:43:56 Be quiet!
00:48:23 - And the guns? - We keep them.
00:52:09 Pesquet, Antoine.
00:56:40 Two more, Commandant.
01:01:20 And you're still part of it!
01:05:08 "This letter is my last.
01:08:57 Barthelemy, Henri, railwayman, three children.
01:14:18 I fear it doesn't have quite the same effect
01:17:49 but you are held in great esteem
01:23:44 - Freedom! - The Party!
06:03:05 I've got two.