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Conclave, the first film directed by German director Edward Berger after the many awards he won for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) is being screened in the Official Section at San Sebastian. It portrays the Vatican ritual for the election of a new pope in order to set up a political thriller full of intrigue, conspiracies and power games.
“With this film I wanted to explore something different from what I had done with All Quiet on the Western Front.” Berger explains. The open and snowy landscapes of his war film are now succeeded by the claustrophobia of the Vatican confinement in Rome. However, there are points in common between both films, as the director himself acknowledged: “It’s something that I realized in hindsight, but it’s true that both films focus above all on a character who is going through an internal struggle driven by doubt, which is where they get their energy from.”
For the German director, this film has been a great opportunity to work with an excellent international ensemble cast, in which the importance of the main character is crucial, hence the value that Berger attaches to having been able to work with Ralph Fiennes.
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