La mer à l'aube
France/Germany // 2001 //
Couleur // 90'
French with English subtitles
France, 1941. When a Nazi colonel is assassinated by French communists, Germany retaliates by orderings the execution of 50 prisoners. 27 come from a camp known to contain political prisoners. Amongst them is 17-year-old Guy Môquet, madly in love with life and with poetry. And in the firing squad, a young Heinrich Böll, future Nobel literature prize winner. La Mer à l’aube retraces the few hours left to these men – dignified and in solidarity to the end – before the execution.
Made by Volker Schlöndorff, this historical fiction and its impeccable photography are a celebration of resistance. We find a remarkable Jean-Pierre Darroussin in the role of a humanist priest who becomes an apostle of disobedience when human fraternity comes to be threatened. Sober and sensitive, the film emits a refreshing breeze of insubordination.
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Grütli Simon
18h 45 Sunday 04 March
Grütli Langlois
19h 00 Thursday 08 March
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SCÉNARIO: Volker Schlöndorff
IMAGE: Lubomir Bakchev
MONTAGE: Susanne Hartmann
MUSIQUE: Bruno Coulais
AVEC: Ulrich Matthes, Marc Barbé, Léo-Paul Salmain, Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Martin Lozillon, Philippe Résimont |
PRODUCTION: Les Canards Sauvages/ARTE France/Provobis Film/7e Apache Films
DISTRIBUTION: Wide, 40, rue Sainte-Anne, 75002 Paris, France
TÉL: +33 1 53 95 04 64
E-MAIL: wide@widemanagement.com |
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