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