Countdown to War
Countdown to War
Release: 1989-04-07
·Runtime: 78m
·★ 5.0
Drama
History
War
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Anthony Bate
as Simon
Bernard Gallagher
as Greenwood
Alex Norton
as Stalin
Barrie Rutter
as Mussolini
Jonathan Coy
as Butler
Ronnie Stevens
as Phipps
Richard Heffer
as Wallace
Michael Cronin
as Molotov
Stephen Moore
as Beck
Michael Aldridge
as Neville Chamberlain
John Woodvine
as Joachim von Ribbentrop
Peter Vaughan
as Hermann Goering
Lee Montague
as Hore-Belisha
James Laurenson
as Ciano
John Stratton
as Hacha
Ian McKellen
as Adolf Hitler
Tony Britton
as Sir Nevile Henderson
Robert Ashby
as Bonnet
Bill Stewart
as Lipski
Michael Culver
as Halifax