The FOCUS of Gaia Serena Simionati: The Series

(from Rome Luigi Noera, with the kind collaboration of Eleonora Ono and the contribution of Gaia Serena Simionati – the photos are published courtesy of #ROMEFILMFEST)

‘THE DEAL’, THE SWISS SERIES ON IRANIAN ATOMIC

Directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron, at the Rome Film Festival the series on the interesting and current 'The Deal'. A Franco-Swiss co-production, Belgian and Luxembourg. The series in three languages, tells the background of the sophisticated political negotiations on nuclear production and the atomic threat

Geneva, Grand Rivage Hotel. 2015 , The first episode Miss Nobody of the interesting series 'The Deal' opens there, the negotiation, already presented at the Locarno Film Festival (78th edition) and now at the Rome Film Fest.

Directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron, The deal is a splendid Swiss co-production by Bande à Parte and the French company Artè, in addition to Belgium and Luxembourg developed in three languages (English, French, Farsi).

It tells the long and sophisticated behind the scenes story, in negotiations at the Swiss table with China, Russia, USA regarding Iranian nuclear production and the asphyxiation of its economy due to sanctions.

Everything is located in the excellent settings of large hotels, hall and bathroom ideas from Véronique Sacrez and Liza Weinland.

These are corroborated by satin-sharp photography by Adrien Bertolle.

Sanctions, 150 billions of dollars frozen in Swiss banks, specific requests, secret meetings, Mossad always lurking.

Palpable tension thanks also to Amine Bouhafa's centered and never invasive music, Christian Garcia-Gaucher, Gast Waltzing.

Elegant places, many languages ​​spoken, the sophistication of history born from reality, it also extends to its film version, leaving the viewer in suspense, come in un thriller.

He remains in constant suspense as to whether the US and Iran will ever finally reach an agreement, to the last metre.

They don't teach you anything anymore in journalism school – says one of the reporters, Tony Reyes di Stanford Times, at the meeting with a television journalist who had already reached the 5th round of negotiations. Mentioning the devastating role of tip-offs to the press and the often disastrous role of the latter in the delicate nature of negotiations.

The DIRECTOR's words

“I delve into the background of diplomacy to tell the human costs of power in an intimate and compelling drama. I try to reveal with a documentarian's eye the cracks in the protocol and the fragile bonds behind the great challenges.”

Jean-Stéphane Bron is a Swiss documentary director and screenwriter. His films deal with political themes: the crisis of democracy, the economic crisis, the rise of populism. Cleveland Versus Wall Street (2010) he was nominated for the César. Con The Paris Opera (2017) won the Swiss Film Award for best documentary for the third time. He is a producer of Bande à part Films, together with Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier e Frédéric Mermoud.

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