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
Ian McKellen
as Adolf Hitler
Tony Britton
as Sir Nevile Henderson
Peter Vaughan
as Hermann Goering
Michael Culver
as Halifax
Jonathan Coy
as Butler
Ronnie Stevens
as Phipps
Michael Cronin
as Molotov
Bernard Gallagher
as Greenwood
James Laurenson
as Ciano
Barrie Rutter
as Mussolini
Bill Stewart
as Lipski
John Stratton
as Hacha
Michael Aldridge
as Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Bate
as Simon
Robert Ashby
as Bonnet
John Woodvine
as Joachim von Ribbentrop
Lee Montague
as Hore-Belisha
Richard Heffer
as Wallace
Alex Norton
as Stalin
Stephen Moore
as Beck