THE DIPLOMAT tells the remarkable story of the life and legacy of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spans fifty years of American foreign policy - from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Told through the perspective of his eldest son David, the documentary takes you behind the scenes of high stakes diplomacy where peace is waged and wars are ended. As a young man, Holbrooke was sent to Vietnam as a junior foreign service officer and saw up close what went wrong. Thirty years later, he is tasked by President Clinton to bring another conflict to an end, this time in Europe where the Bosnian war is raging. This success earns him fame but not his dream job of Secretary of State, yet he soldiers on, getting an impossible mission from President Obama of ending the war in Afghanistan. The effort does not go well, as Holbrooke runs into obstacles in Kabul and Washington and dies on the job in December 2010 when his heart gives out. Processing his father's death, Holbrooke's son David realizes that he did not know this historical figure's legacy well enough. Holbrooke was always on the road, which created an inevitable distance between father and son. In the course of grieving, David decides that he needs to understand his father better in death than in life and he sets out into his world. The film will be released in 2015, the 20th anniversary of Holbrooke's crowning achievement: the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the Bosnian war. 译文(2): 《外交官》讲述了美国大使理查·霍布鲁克的非凡人生和传奇故事，他非凡的职业生涯跨越了美国50年的外交政策——从越南到阿富汗。通过他的长子大卫的视角讲述，这部纪录片带你进入高风险外交的幕后，那里发动了和平，结束了战争。年轻时，霍尔布鲁克作为一名初级外交官被派往越南，并亲眼目睹了事情的经过。30年后，克林顿总统委托他结束另一场冲突，这一次是在波斯尼亚战争肆虐的欧洲。这一成功为他赢得了名声，但却不是他梦想中的国务卿工作，然而他仍然坚持不懈，从奥巴马总统那里得到了一个不可能完成的任务——结束阿富汗战争。这项努力并不顺利，霍尔布鲁克在喀布尔和华盛顿遇到了障碍，并于2010年12月因心脏衰竭去世。处理父亲的去世，霍尔布鲁克的儿子大卫意识到，他不知道这个历史人物的遗产不够好。霍尔布鲁克总是在路上，这使得父子之间不可避免地产生了距离。在悲痛的过程中，大卫决定，他需要更好地了解他的父亲死亡，而不是在生活中，他出发进入他的世界。这部电影将于2015年上映，这一年是霍尔布鲁克最伟大的成就——结束波斯尼亚战争的《代顿和平协议》(Dayton Peace Accords)诞生20周年。
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