‘Une nuit pour sauver Paris de la destruction’ as the strap on the film poster puts it. Review aggregator Brenda Benthien of kinocritics.com judged the "theatrical tour-de-force" was "a "Diplomatie" redirects here. All the explosive charges were in place. Dietrich von Choltitz (Schloss Wiese, Silezië, 9 november 1894 - Baden-Baden, 5 november 1966) was een Duitse General der Infanterie ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. The film premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2014. Niels Arestrup plays General von Choltitz with such iron conviction that you really do believe he is about to blow up Paris and nothing can stop him.

Perhaps we bear even more guilt than these uneducated animals. I misled my soldiers into believing this rubbish. De Zweedse consul Raoul Nordling tracht de generaal ervan te overtuigen om het bevel van Hitler naast zich neer te leggen.
)Choltitz was also mentioned as a General of Paris in the "Choltitz" redirects here. But then the Swedish Consul, Raoul Nordling, intervened and managed to persuade von Choltitz at the last minute not to destroy the city.

After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. 7 of 10 people found this review helpful. Hitler gave the order to the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, to raze Paris to the ground and kill as many of its 1.5 million inhabitants as possible, just as the American troops were approaching the city. Dietrich von Choltitz was born in 1894 as Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz. For the 2011 play by French playwright Cyril Gély, see In the outskirts and back-alleys of Kuala Lumpur, several individuals with money problems struggle to get their lives straight, finding their paths unexpectedly intersecting - with fatal results. Hitler threatened to kill von Choltitz's wife and children if he did not carry out the order. Why is this hair-raising story not better known? It was released in French theatres on 1 September. He died in 1966. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. In 2016 his son, Timo, tried to get it back during his visit in Prudnik, but without success.During his internment in Trent Park many of the officers’ private conversations were secretly recorded by the British in the hope that they might reveal strategic information.
All young people should be made to see it.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling. In 1939, World War II breaks out. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. Certificate: M/PG Listening to the Generals, Adam Ganz, Radio Play BBC Radio 4, Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling. The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, everything of note, was ready to be blown up.

Von Choltitz ordered red flares to be launched, and when the first three bombers overhead dropped their bombs the red flares were obscured by smoke. Use the HTML below. His funeral was attended by top French military officers, because of the role he played in safeguarding their city. During the harsh winter at the turn of 1941 and 1942, von Choltitz struggled with On 15 August 1944, the Paris police went on strike, followed on 19 August by a general insurrection led by the On the 23 August, Hitler gave the order to destroy the city by cable: "With the arrival of Allied troops on the edge of the city at dawn the next day on the 24th, Choltitz made the decision not to destroy the city, and on 25 August, surrendered the German garrison, not to the Supreme Allied Command, but rather to representatives of the provisional government, the Hitler did not completely give up on the destruction, with the Luftwaffe conducting an incendiary bombing raid on August 26, and V2 rockets fired from Belgium, causing extensive damage.The events leading up to the surrender were the subject of a 1951 memoir written by General von Choltitz (published in French in the 1960s as The memoirs also state that he was persuaded to spare the city in part by an all-night meeting with Nordling on the night of 24 July. Was this review helpful to you? It's medieval times. Nordling tries to downplay its significance, but Choltitz points out that it was enacted right as he was promoted, meaning that Hitler has his eyes on Choltitz. A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary. This is a documentary about German punk rock band Feine Sahne Fischfilet and its singer Jan 'Monchi' Gorkow. There is a lot of genuine archive footage of the Liberation included in the film. Fighting fills the streets. Von Choltitz had only been in place for two weeks, and his predecessor had just been executed and his family killed because he had displeased Hitler. In one such conversation, on 29 August 1944, Choltitz was quoted as saying "The worst job I ever carried out - which however I carried out with great consistency - was the liquidation of the Jews.