Wednesday March 23rd 2016

Germany/France  2014, 84 minutes
Director: Volker Schlondorff 
Starring: Andre Dussolier, Neils Arestrup, Burghart Klaussner.

Paris, August 1944. As the allies advance through France, Hitler orders the German military governor of the city, Dietrich von Cholitz, to prepare the destruction of its most famous buildings and landmarks. Appalled by this possible act of wanton destruction, the neutral Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling attempts to reason with von Cholitz. He hopes to persuade him to disobey the orders of his Fuhrer, even at the risk of savage reprisals to his family. The film is both an absorbing account of the developing relationship between the two men and a tense psychological drama.