Diplomacy —A film by Volker Schlöndorff (2014) "Am deutschen Wesen wird die Welt nicht genesen"
Journal: Organisational and Social Dynamics
Year: 2023

Diplomacy (German and French: Diplomatie) is a 2014 Franco-German historical drama film. In the last months of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz has orders to destroy Paris as Allied Forces move towards the city, and the Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling is asking the general not to do it. The two protagonists can be interpreted as ego and alter ego, with Nordling representing the split-off self-parts of the general who strive for freedom and justice and experience life as lovable and wo