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STORY: UN / FILMING
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT 2012, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
5 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, actors in Security Council
3. Various shots, actors in Security Council
4. Med shot, Kofi Annan lookalike
5. Various shots, Security Council with cameras, lighting actors
6. Close up, Bertrand Tavernier
7. Various shots, clapperboard
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bertrand Tavernier, Film Director:
"I'm very moved to be in the place where so many great events happened."
9. Tilt down, cover of comic book “Quay D’Orsay”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Bertrand Tavernier, Film Director:
"It's great to deal with a very very serious subject but to make the people laugh and at the same time be very very true and realistic in the treatment."
FILE – 14 FEBRUARY 2003, NEW YORK CITY
11. Various shots, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin at UN Security Council
5 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
12. Various shots, Thierry Lhermitte playing de Villepin
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Lhermitte, Actor:
“By the time I was very much interested in the news. We were on the verge of going to war and France didn't know they were to be involved in the war with the US so of course I was interested. And I remember listening to this speech at the UN at the Security Council so having the opportunity to do that in the real place is wonderful for me."
14. Wide shot, Security Council
At first glance, it certainly looks like a regular day at the Security Council.
Except these guys? Not real diplomats.
And this definitely isn't Kofi Annan.
Last weekend, the scene of so many real-life moments of drama, the United Nations Security Council, became a silver screen film set for French director Bertrand Tavernier's latest feature film ‘Quai D'Orsay’.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bertrand Tavernier, Film Director:
"I'm very moved to be in the place where so many great events happened."
The movie is based on a famous comic book of the same name. It's a dark comedy which tells the story of the French foreign ministry's inner workings at a moment of international crisis ten years ago, the beginning of the war in Iraq.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bertrand Tavernier, Film Director:
"It's great to deal with a very very serious subject but to make the people laugh and at the same time be very very true and realistic in the treatment."
So when it came to filming the movie's most crucial scene – a recreation of this famous speech, given by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin at the UN Security Council in 2003 – only one location was an option.
Lead actor Thierry Lhermitte said that playing this role feels personal.
SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Lhermitte, Actor:
“By the time I was very much interested in the news. We were on the verge of going to war and France didn't know they were to be involved in the war with the US so of course I was interested. And I remember listening to this speech at the UN at the Security Council so having the opportunity to do that in the real place is wonderful for me."
The movie will be released later this year.
