German beauty Franke Potente seems to love putting herself in harms way. She first came onto the scene in the breathless "Run Lola Run," tried to survive being Jason Bourne's girlfriend in "The Bourne Identity" and its sequel, "The Bourne Supremacy," and recently played a vicious mob boss on television's "The Shield."

Now she has to try to survive the open sea in "Wave," an indie thriller directed by Maria Ripoll, and penned by Marie-Laure Bertehlin and Greg Latter.

It's based on the true story of Louise Longo, chronicled in her autobiography "Let Me Survive." Longo, her husband Bernard, and their five-year-old daughter set out for a cruise in the Bay of Biscay, where they're slammed by a violent storm. They decided to opt for the liferaft rather than go down with their sailboat, and spent two weeks adrift at sea with no food or water. When the liferaft was finally rescued, only Louise had survived. Read more...