Film
Countdown to War
United Kingdom- Director
- Patrick Lau
- Year
- 1989
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.
Top cast
Ian McKellen
Adolf Hitler
Michael Aldridge
Neville Chamberlain
Tony Britton
Sir Nevile Henderson
John Woodvine
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Peter Vaughan
Hermann Goering
Michael Culver
Halifax
Anthony Bate
Simon
Lee Montague
Hore-Belisha
Jonathan Coy
Butler
Ronnie Stevens
Phipps
Jack Galloway
MacDonald
Richard Heffer
Wallace
John Elmes
Colvin
Bernard Gallagher
Greenwood
David Swift
Daladier
Robert Ashby
Bonnet
Bernard Brown
Corbin
Alex Norton
Stalin
Directed by
Patrick Lau