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Diplomacy
2014 84m Not Rated
Drama
,
War
,
History
7.1
94%
80%
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A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
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Directed By
Volker Schlöndorff
Written By
Cyril Gely
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Volker Schlöndorff
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Cast of Diplomacy
André Dussollier
Raoul Nordling
Niels Arestrup
General Dietrich von Choltitz
Burghart Klaußner
Captain Werner Ebernach
Robert Stadlober
Lieutenant Bressensdorf
Charlie Nelson
The caretaker
Jean-Marc Roulot
Jacques Lanvin
Stefan Wilkening
Caporal Mayer
Thomas Arnold
Lieutenant Hegger
Lucas Prisor
SS soldier
Attila Borlan
SS officer
Marie Dompnier
The makeup lady
Claudine Acs
The maid
Dominique Engelhardt
Hans, the guard
Johannes Klaußner
18 year old soldier
Charles Morillon
The vestibule guard
Olivier Ythier
Lieutenant Karcher
Pierre-Marie Rochefort-Schneider
The radio operator
Jochen Hägele
Escort soldier
Jean-Cyril Durieux
Escort soldier
Bodo Wolf
Tristan Robin
Dankwart Von Arnim (uncredited)
Eric Moreau
A resistant (uncredited)
Paula Beer
Ingrid (uncredited)
Diplomacy Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Its minor thrills come not from not knowing what will happen, but from watching the cagey choreography of two acrobatic minds.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Diplomacy will work for those who appreciate dialogue-based character films in which plot is of secondary importance.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
Although we know what happens, Diplomacy keeps up the suspense and pulls off surprises as Choltitz's decision reaches its inevitable ending.
Boston Globe
Tom Russo
Tere's a fair amount of talking in circles, even with the film's brisk running time. The dialogue also reflects the material's stage origins in ways that don't always translate well.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Arestrup and Dussollier are mesmerizing as they attack and parry, argue and counterargue. They reminisce about their lives before the war and wax poetic about their families - then engage in battle again.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
A little supporting personality could have made the proceedings feel less like a smartly staged character study and more like a wartime drama.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Well-orchestrated and superbly acted. Though we know the outcome, the fate of Paris seems anything but guaranteed.
AV Club
Nick Schager
Has enough visual panache to compensate for the static, conversational nature of the work.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The film's a little too flashy and theatrical, with too-neat ironies. As a duel between acting talents, though, this is first-rate.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Based on the French play by Cyril Gely and directed by Volker Schlndorff's Diplomacy is so soundly engineered and acted that it doesn't seem stagey at all.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Benefits greatly from the razor-sharp, theater-honed skills of two formidable French actors, Niels Arestrup and Andr Dussollier, who created the roles on stage.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The film isn't really fooling anyone into feeling doom-laden suspense (Paris, after all, is still standing), but the principal performers sell the momentousness of the drama.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
If you've had your fill of tony World War II dramas, this probably won't renew your interest in the genre, but the leads are fine as usual and Schlndorff succeeds in making the stagebound material feel reasonably cinematic.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's quite a triumph for Diplomacy in general and Schlndorff's pinpoint filmmaking in particular to involve us as thoroughly as it does in the ebb and flow of their compelling conversation.
New Yorker
David Denby
The principal suspense in this fascinating movie is generated by the polite, and then not so polite, ferocity of the arguments between the two men.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
What Gly lacks in historical fidelity he gains in dramatic interplay between men who held power very differently.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The value of "Diplomacy" is that it produces at least as much unsettlement as relief, compelling the viewer to remain haunted by nightmarish thoughts of what might have happened.
Philadelphia Daily News
Gary Thompson
The drama is made interesting and more substantial as hidden facts about the German's situation are revealed, and his soldier's perspective honored.
Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
It's Arestrup who really steals the show, turning von Cholitz into a man who bears the weight of several thousand soldiers, not to mention an entire civilian population, and who suffers under that burden until making a final, eleventh hour decision.
Variety
Scott Foundas
To be sure, we are in that authorial fantasy by which historical figures become shrewder, sharper and wittier than they surely were in life... But when the actors and the dialogue are this good, one scarcely objects.
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