Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.
Cinematography
Drenched in that specific Northern European summer light that screams 'doomed.'
Acting
Marie Bäumer's face does what the script won't let her say.
Director
Vivian Naefe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Baltic German nobility depicted here was literally erased by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles—this summer house is a ghost before the story even starts.
Director Vivian Naefe specifically cast against type: Marie Bäumer, known for modern roles, embodies the last gasp of a rigid social code she's visibly suffocating in.
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