“The Deal”, the thriller by Jean-Stéphane Bron, pays tribute to diplomacy, at the risk of distorting the image of good Swiss offices

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“The dramatic blows of this diplomatic vaudeville will undoubtedly make the happiness of the writers one day,” wrote on April 1, 2015 Time In the aftermath of an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program immediately deemed “historic”. For four days, the heads of American, Iranian, French, British, Russian, Chinese and the European Union had negotiated a compromise in the camera in the camera of a compromise to which very few observers believed a few weeks earlier.

The term Vaudeville was a bit exaggerated – although the funny anecdotes surrounding this extraordinary diplomatic ballet abound – but no doubt there was a matter to scenario. Jean-Stéphane Bron seized it with happiness by mixing the realism of the negotiation scenes with the fiction necessary for a tight television series. The Deal Perfectly restores an atmosphere and a context: those of a world that seems far away today, if not disappeared. A time when diplomacy could still impose itself in the face of military logic – today, the premiere is bombing.

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