Volker Schlondorff’s ‘Calm At Sea’ Debuting At This Year’s Berlinale

While it has been a while, or somewhere around five years now to be exact, since we’ve last seen a film from ‘˜The Tin Drum’ director Volker Schlondorff, that is all about to change.

The Berlinale has revealed their Panorama lineup for this year’s festival, and the most noticeable name on this list is Schlondorff’s latest film, entitled Calm At Sea.

The film follows the story of a 17-year-old who joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France in 1941.   Based on a real-life story, the film stars Léo Paul Salmain, Ulrich Matthes, Martin Loizillon, Jacob Matschenz, André Jung, Harald Schrott, Thomas Arnold and Christopher Buchholz, and joins new pieces from the likes of Ira Sachs and Umut Dag in this massively intriguing sidebar.

Personally, while not all that much is really known about the film, this is definitely one of this writer’s most anticipated films 0f 2012.   I think the narrative is really quite intriguing, and any new film from an auteur like Schlondorff is one to stand up and take notice about.   Here’s to hoping it can live up to the potential.

What do you think?

Source THR