Countdown to War (1989)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 7, 1989Release Date
Plot.
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Cast & Crew.
Ian McKellen
Adolf Hitler
Michael Aldridge
Neville Chamberlain
Tony Britton
Sir Nevile Henderson
John Woodvine
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Peter Vaughan
Hermann Göring
Michael Culver
Lord Halifax
Anthony Bate
Sir John Simon
Lee Montague
Hore-Belisha
Jonathan Coy
Butler
Jack Galloway
MacDonald
Ronnie Stevens
Phipps
Richard Heffer
Wallace
Patrick Lau
Director
John Elmes
Colvin
Ronald Harwood
Writer
Bernard Gallagher
Greenwood
Details.
Wiki.
Countdown to War is a television film made in 1989 as a co-production by Granada Television and PBS. It recounts the events that occurred between 15 March 1939, when the German army commanded by Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and 3 September 1939, the date when France and United Kingdom declared war on Germany. The film is divided into 5 different stages: Mussolini's study, Hitler's Chancellery, Stalin's Kremlin, Beck’s bedroom, and Chamberlain's Cabinet. The script is based on private letters, diaries and records of meetings between the different leaders. The film starred Ian McKellen, Michael Aldridge, Alex Norton and Barrie Rutter.