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Das Meer am Morgen – Ein Kriegsdrama von Volker Schlöndorff
By Dorothea Holloway | September 5, 2013
Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Léo Paul Salmain, courtesy Berlinale
André Jung, Harald St;chrott, Ulrich Matthes, courtesy Berlinale
From a review by Wolfgang J. Ruf in KINO – German Film No: 103, (2012):
Calm at Sea (Das Meer am Morgen) fascinates with breathtaking authenticity, which is also the result of a convincing cast. The fresh-faced look of Leo-Paul Salmain as Guy Moquet and Ulrich Matthes’ distinctive portrait of the ambiguous Ernst Jünger stay in mind as expression of entirely different designs of living.
On August 31, ( 2013 ) I saw Das Meer am Morgen (La Mer a L’aube) (Frankreich/Deutschland 2011) on TV at Bayerischer Rundfunk. At the Berlinale 2012 in section Panorama I had seen this impressing master-piece for the first time and wrote about it also in KINO – German Film No: 103:
La Mer a L’aube ( Calm at Sea ) by Volker Schlöndorff is film-making craftsmanship without any flaws and faults.
Broadcasting Das Meer am Morgen in the context of President Joachim Gauck’s visit of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane at September 4, 2013, was a decent act of TV programming. Joachim Gauck was the first German head of state to visit the site of the gruesome massacre by the Waffen-SS in 1944. It’s reflecting today’s intensity of French-German relations as it does the fact that a German director was allowed to make a film about the felonious execution of 150 civilian hostages by German troops in 1941. Among them the only 17 years old Guy Môquet – still today a patriotic icon in France.
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