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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Creator/AndreDussollier and Niels Arestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Creator/AndreDussollier and Niels Arestrup.Creator/NielsArestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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On 22 August [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1944]], as the Allied forces are approaching UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup), commander of the ''Groß Paris'' (the German troops occupying the city), is ordered by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling (Dussolier), a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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On 22 August [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1944]], as the Allied forces are approaching UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup), commander of the ''Groß Paris'' (the German troops occupying the city), is ordered by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling (Dussolier), (Dussollier), a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring André Dussolier and Niels Arestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring André Dussolier Creator/AndreDussollier and Niels Arestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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''Film/IsParisBurning'' is an older take on this story with Creator/OrsonWelles and Creator/GertFrobe in the same roles, albeit as just one storyline among many others in the bigger picture of the Liberation of Paris.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris, the real story is heavily [[{{Dramatization}} dramatized]] for the film.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris, but the real story is heavily [[{{Dramatization}} dramatized]] for the film.
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On 22 August [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1944]], as the Allied forces are approaching Paris, UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup), commander of the ''Groß Paris'' (the German troops occupying the city), is ordered by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling (Dussolier), a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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* MirroredConfrontationShot: The pose of Von Choltitz and Nordling on the film poster. The confrontation between the characters is only verbal in this case.
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* MonumentalDamage: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Germans are ordered to destroy the most famous monuments of Paris. They plant bombs in them, but in the end Von Choltitz cancel the operation.
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* MonumentalDamage: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Germans are ordered to destroy the most famous monuments of Paris. They plant bombs in them, but in the end Von Choltitz cancel cancels the operation.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris, the real story is heavily [[Dramatization [[{{Dramatization}} dramatized]] for the film.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris.Paris, the real story is heavily [[Dramatization dramatized]] for the film.
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** In real life, the Germans were ordered to destroy Paris, but they had few troops and few explosives to carry this order out, so the threat was not as serious as depicted in the film. Moreover, there was no specific instruction to destroy the most famous monuments.
** In real life, Von Choltitz and Nordling always used an interpreter when they talked together, because Von Choltitz did not know French.
** In real life, Von Choltitz and Nordling met in August 1944, but the decisive meeting during the night of 22 August is a creation of the writer.
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** In real life, the Germans were ordered to destroy Paris, but they had few troops and few explosives to carry this order out, so the threat was not as serious as depicted in the film. Moreover, there was no specific instruction to destroy the most famous monuments.
** In real life, Von Choltitz and Nordling always used an interpreter when they talked together, because Von Choltitz did not know French.
** In real life, Von Choltitz and Nordling met in August 1944, but the decisive meeting during the night of 22 August is a creation of the writer.
** The BookcasePassage in the Hôtel Meurice does not exist.
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* MonumentalDamage: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Germans are ordered to destroy the most famous monuments of Paris. They plant bombs in them, but in the end Von Choltitz cancel the operation.
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On 22 August 1944, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1944]], as the allied Allied forces are approaching Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup) (Arestrup), commander of the ''Groß Paris'' (the German troops occupying the city), is ordered by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling (Dussolier), a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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''Film/IsParisBurning'' is an older take on this story with Creator/OrsonWelles and Creator/GertFrobe in the same roles, albeit as just one storyline among many others in the bigger picture of the Liberation of Paris.
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* TheFilmOfThePlay: The film is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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* TheFilmOfThePlay: The film is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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* ExactEavesDropping: Nordling happens to be in the secret passage right when the Germans are explaining in detail their plan to destroy Paris, so he hears everything about it.
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* RousingSpeech: In the end, Von Choltitz gives one to the German soldiers left to encourage them before a last fight. He says that he will fight with them as "a soldier among the soldiers" (which is the title of Von Choltitz's memoir).
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* EiffelTowerEffect: There are several shots of the most famous monuments of Paris in the end. {{Justified|Trope}}, since the topic of the movie is their possible destruction.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Nordling compares Von Choltitz, who blindly obeys Hitler when Hitler orders him to destroy Paris, with Abraham, who blindly obeyed God when God ordered him to kill his own son Isaac. Nordling asks who would like to have a father like Abraham, who is ready to sacrifice his own son. Later, Von Choltitz tells Nordling that, if he does not destroy Paris, the Nazis will kill his wife and children, so he has to obey orders because he is not ready to sacrifice his children.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Nordling compares Von Choltitz, who blindly obeys Hitler when Hitler orders him to destroy Paris, with Abraham, [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Abraham]], who blindly obeyed God when God ordered him to kill his own son Isaac. Nordling asks who would like to have a father like Abraham, who is ready to sacrifice his own son. Later, Von Choltitz tells Nordling that, if he does not destroy Paris, the Nazis will kill his wife and children, so he has to obey orders because he is not ready to sacrifice his children.
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* LesCollaborateurs: There is a French engineer who helps the German to plant bombs in Paris. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the end, when [[spoiler:he shoots down the German soldier who was going to set off the bombs in spite of Von Choltitz's order to cancel the operation]].
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* ForTheEvulz: The reason why Hitler wants to destroy Paris. The Germans admits that it will give no strategical advantage to Germany.
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* JustFollowingOrders: When Nordling tells Von Choltitz that destroying Paris is a crime and that it will give no strategical advantage to Germany, Von Choltitz answers that his duty is to follow orders no matter what.
* LaResistance: French fighters attack the German troops left in Paris. Some of them sabotage the time switches of the bombs planted in Paris. The German reinforcements are stuck miles away from Paris because of the Resistance too. In the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Nordling belongs to the Resistance]].
* LaResistance: French fighters attack the German troops left in Paris. Some of them sabotage the time switches of the bombs planted in Paris. The German reinforcements are stuck miles away from Paris because of the Resistance too. In the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Nordling belongs to the Resistance]].
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On 22 August 1944, as the allied forces are approaching Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup) is ordered to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling, Nordling (Dussolier), a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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* ChromosomeCasting: All the main characters are male. Only a few women appear as minor characters (a chambermaid, a woman who is putting on makeup...).
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* BookcasePassage: There is one in the office of Von Choltitz in the Hôtel Meurice. Nordling uses it to get secretly into his office. He shows Von Choltitz how to open the secret door: a book in a bookcase must be tilted.
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* StealthHiBye: How Nordling appears in the office of Von Choltitz. Von Choltitz has not heard him and he is very surprised when Nordling appears. Nordling then reveals that he has used a BookcasePassage.
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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring André Dussolier and Niels Arestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Nordling compares Von Choltitz, who blindly obeys Hitler when Hitler orders him to destroy Paris, with Abraham, who blindly obeyed God when God ordered him to kill his own son Isaac. Nordling asks who would like to have a father like Abraham, who is ready to sacrifice his own son. Later, Von Choltitz tells Nordling that, if he does not destroy Paris, the Nazis will kill his wife and children, so he has to obey orders because he is not ready to sacrifice his children.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film happens during the night between 22 and 23 August 1944.
* ForegoneConclusion: Paris still exists today, so it is easy to guess that Nordling will eventually persuade Von Choltitz not to destroy the city.
* TheFilmOfThePlay: The film is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: A caption in the end tells what happened to Von Choltitz and his family.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on true events. The real-life Raoul Nordling tried to dissuade Von Choltitz from destroying Paris.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film happens during the night between 22 and 23 August 1944.
* ForegoneConclusion: Paris still exists today, so it is easy to guess that Nordling will eventually persuade Von Choltitz not to destroy the city.
* TheFilmOfThePlay: The film is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
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''Diplomacy'' (in French ''Diplomatie'') is a 2014 Franco-German film starring André Dussolier and Niels Arestrup. It is based on a 2011 play of the same title by Cyril Gély.
On 22 August 1944, as the allied forces are approaching Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup) is ordered to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling, a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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On 22 August 1944, as the allied forces are approaching Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Arestrup) is ordered to destroy the city. All night long, Raoul Nordling, a Swedish consul, tries to dissuade him from doing it.
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