The winner of the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for best foreign language film Volker Schlöndorff will be present, with «Diplomatie», for the first time in the official section of the Seminci of Valladolid.
Awarded in the three European competitions, the Berlinale, the Cannes Festival and the Venice Film Festival with previous films, the German director will attend the official section of a Spanish competition for the first time with his new work «diplomacy«.
This new film by Volker Schlöndorff It arrives at the Valladolid competition after passing through the Shanghai Festival, where it won the award for best screenplay, and the Telluride Festival, obtaining very good reviews in both competitions.
«Diplomatie» tells the story of the meeting at the Hotel Meurice between Raoul nordling, Swedish consul, and choltitz, German governor of Paris, where the first tries to convince the second not to execute the order to activate the explosives placed under the main Parisian monuments such as the Louvre, Notre-Dame or the Eiffel Tower.
They star in the film Andre Dussollier, best known for films by Alain Resnais such as "Private Affairs in Public Places" or "The Weeds", and niels arestrup, seen in movies like Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" or Bertrand Tavernier's "Diplomatic Chronicles."
More information - Programming of the Seminci de Valladolid 2014