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Munich — The Edge of War (12)
Directed by Christian Schwochow
DERIDED by history as a weak leader and appeaser, former prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s actions are seen in a fresh new light in this powerful and thrilling film adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel, Munich.
His desperate bid to broker peace with Adolf Hitler (Ulrich Matthes, who in fact played Joseph Goebbels in Downfall) in the autumn of 1938 at the Munich conference is perceived through the eyes of two young men who were former university friends at Oxford.
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