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DIPLOMACY has an important tale to tell. How Paris was saved from **** destruction due to two brave men. How all the life is drained out of this story is the mystery of DIPLOMACY. One more limp film from Volker Schlondorff.

From the director of 'Tin Drum', one of my all time favorites, Volker Schlöndorff, comes a new movie "Diplomacy". In this history-reenactment movie a Swedish diplomat is trying to persuade a German general, who has **** order to blow up Paris, to disobey the orders and save the great city along with hundreds of thousands of Parisians from destruction. As we all know, Paris was not blown up, so that mission succeeded obviously. Both main leads show a good performance but not a spectacular one. The whole movie seems a bit too theatrical. The director's idea that diplomacy works baffles me. The whole history of the WWII (with very few exceptions like this story) proves exactly the opposite. Overall I liked the movie but was not very impressed by it.