35 years after winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for «The tin drum«, Volker Schlöndorff brings us a new film about the drama of the Second World War,« Diplomatie ».
This new film by the German director has won the award for the best screenplay of the Shanghai Film Festival.
In these 35 years since Volker Schlöndorff won the Academy Award, the filmmaker has produced few notable films. "The Traveler", awarded at the 1991 European Film Awards, and "The Silence after the Shot", awarded at the Berlinale in 2000, are the unremarkable of this director in recent decades.
With "diplomacy»The best Schlöndorff seems to have returned, especially after his triumphant passage through the Asian competition.
«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."