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ACTOR
Léo-Paul SalmainMarc BarbéUlrich MatthesJean-Marc Roulot
DIRECTOR
Volker Schlöndorff
SYNOPSICS
La mer à l'aube (2011) is a French,German movie. Volker Schlöndorff has directed this movie. Léo-Paul Salmain,Marc Barbé,Ulrich Matthes,Jean-Marc Roulot are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. La mer à l'aube (2011) is considered one of the best Drama,War movie in India and around the world.
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
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La mer à l'aube (2011) Reviews
A WW2 tragedy
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. This real story, focusing on Môquet and his friends in the detainee camp, shows the conflicting interests between the German high commander Von Stülpnagel and his entourage in France (the famous writer Ernst Jünger), Berlin, and the puppet regime of Vichy (and the ambiguous role of the French police). A very moving and historical accurately told story.
Poignant, magnificently directed and acted
But WHY the English mistranslation of the title? Anyone/everyone who took French in school or can open a French/English dictionary page knows "l'aube" means the sunrise, dawn. What on earth was gained by changing it to sea? Here I thought "Assassin in Love" was the worst English translation of Damian Lewis' fabulous comedic performance in "The Baker".. The horror and debasement of the Vichy government is mercilessly revealed and, for Americans especially, a kinder definition of the Communists (social idealists, workers, common people) at that time, before the inevitable(Power rules!) corruption set in, and the elite profited, as usual. "I am a working class man, but my overalls are better than your (fancy) uniform," grand spit. I hope this English sub-titled DVD becomes available to the proletariat(:-))at less than the current price soon.