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For 24 years, East Timor's freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos Horta campaigned to secure independence for his country, a Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The Diplomat takes up Ramos Horta's story in the final dramatic stages of his long journey - the fall of Indonesia's President Suharto, the referendum to determine East Timor's future, the overwhelming vote for independence, the devastating carnage that ensued, the intervention of United Nations peacekeepers, and Ramos Horta's final triumphant return to his homeland. José Ramos Horta allowed the filmmaker extraordinary access to his public and personal life. The film reveals his strengths and weaknesses, his moments of doubt and frustration, his anger and disappointment, his elation and triumph, his charm and his dry humour. He emerges as a tenacious and beguiling character whose role as a diplomat and peacemaker was a crucial one that helped finally deliver his country its freedom.

Australia - 2000 - 1 h 21 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Tom Zubrycki Scénario Wilson da Silva, Tom Zubrycki Image Robert Humphreys, Joel Peterson Son Chris Bollard Montage Ray Thomas Musique Jan Preston

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