Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- 12A
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate explosives throughout the capital, Swedish consul Raoul Nordling uses diplomacy in a desperate bid to convince him to defy the orders and save Paris.
- paris
- france
- world war ii
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
André Dussollier
Raoul Nordling
Niels Arestrup
General Dietrich von Choltitz
Burghart Klaußner
Captain Werner Ebernach
Robert Stadlober
Lieutenant Bressensdorf
- Charlie Nelson — The caretaker
- Jean-Marc Roulot — Jacques Lanvin
- Stefan Wilkening — Caporal Mayer
- Thomas Arnold — Lieutenant Hegger
- Lucas Prisor — SS soldier
- Attila Borlan — SS officer
- Marie Dompnier — The makeup lady
- Claudine Acs — The maid
- Dominique Engelhardt — Hans, the guard
- Johannes Klaußner — 18 year old soldier
- Charles Morillon — The vestibule guard
- Directed
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Written
- Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 237 ratings
- Studio
- ARTE, Film Oblige, Gaumont, Blueprint Film
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