Invitation to the
Anniversary of the Elysée Treaty
with a showing of the film,
Diplomacy

Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 7:00 pm 
at Alliance Français/Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta

The Hon. Denis Barbet, Consul General of France in Atlanta,

and

The Hon. Christoph Sander, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Atlanta,

along  with

 Alliance Française and Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta,

cordially invite you to a reception commemorating the
52nd Anniversary of the Elysée Treaty with the screening of
Diplomacy.

Introductory remarks entitled “From Paris to Verdun” by Dr. John Krige, Kranzberg Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of History, Technology, and Society. For more information about Dr. Krige, please check out his website, johnkrige.com. 
 

 About Diplomacy: (Volker Schlöndorff, 2014, 85 min.) 

As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person assigned to carry out this barbaric act is Wehrmacht commander of Greater Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, who already has mines planted on the Eiffel Tower, in the Louvre and Notre Dame and on the bridges over the Seine. Nothing should be left as a reminder of the city’s former glory. However, at dawn on 25 August, Swedish Consul General Raoul Nordling steals into German headquarters through a secret underground tunnel and there starts a tension-filled game of cat and mouse as Nordling tries to persuade Choltitz to abandon his plan.

The film will be shown in French and German with English subtitles.

                                       

 

 

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