Avant la guerre - Histoire d'une déclaration de guerre

Belgrade, March 24th 1999, the first NATO missiles hit the Serb capital. The "Allied forces" operation can begin. Its purpose : to put a halt to the Serb repression in the Kosovo. From negotiations to threats, and from threats to bomb strikes, it has taken Europe many long months to go to war. One question, to which there has not yet been an answer, must be asked : who is at the origin of this controversial decision ? "Before the war" is an investigation into the diplomatic knots and the political interests, which preceded the Kosovo conflict, but also into the new balance of power revealed by it. On the basis of exceptional archives material retracing the different episodes of the march toward the bomb strikes, the investigation, enriched with interviews with principal actors of the conflict : Javier Solana, Hubert Védrine, Christopher Hill, Klaus Kinkel, and others, reveal the ongoing secret negotiations, that have carried on for over one year. An enlightening inquiring into a declaration of war...