Coup de grâce – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 17:45 (France)
War as seen by...
Cinéma La Comète
The fate of three people caught up in the turmoil of the fighting between White Russians and Bolsheviks in the Balkans at the end of the First World War.
Screening followed by the masterclass with Volker Schlöndorff, WoS 2023 guest of honour.
August 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz, German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. 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.
Circle of Deceit – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 19:30 (Germany)
War as seen by...
Cinéma La Comète
In Beirut torn apart by civil war, a German reporter sent to cover the events meets up with a former mistress, living in Lebanon with her husband. In this tormented city, he discovers the many faces of a conflict that will have consequences for him far beyond his work as a journalist.
The Tin Drum – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 12:50 (Germany)
War as seen by...
Cinéma La Comète
Born in Dantzig in 1924, Oskar, a child astonishingly mature beyond his years, listens to the comments of those around him with lucid skepticism. At the age of three, he brutally stops growing by deliberating falling down the stairs. With his little drum that never leaves his side, Oskar sets the tempo to the twists and turns of his life and of history, from the rise of Nazism to World War II.
