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Countdown to War

Countdown to War1989

★6.778 minDramaHistoryWar

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.

Director

Stars

Ian McKellen Michael Aldridge Tony Britton

Cast24

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

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