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Countdown to War
Starring: Sir Ian McKellen , Peter Vaughan
Directed by: Patrick Lau
Item Number: 14638
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/3 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
Summer 1939: With the invasion of Poland looming, two decades of world peace is about to be shattered. Eavesdrop on the secret meetings with the architects of war, Hitler (Sir Ian McKellen, X-Men Movies, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stardust) and Göring (Peter Vaughan, Death at a Funeral) at the Berghof, Hitler's picturesque home in the Bavarian Alps. From previously unseen official records, private letters and diaries, learn how Hitler grossly miscalculated the reactions of Britain and France, hatching a plan that was bound to fail. Intelligently scripted, intense and engrossing, this compelling historical drama was first aired to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Also stars Alex Norton (Taggart, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) as Stalin and Michael Aldridge (Last of the Summer Wine) as Lord Chamberlain.
| Adolf Hitler | --- | Sir Ian McKellen |
| Hermann Goring | --- | Peter Vaughan |
| Neville Chamberlain | --- | Michael Aldridge |
| Bonnet | --- | Robert Ashby |
| Nicolaus Von Below | --- | Sean Barry-Weske |
| Sir John Simon | --- | Anthony Bate |
| Sir Nevile Henderson | --- | Tony Britton |
| Butler | --- | Jonathan Coy |
| Molotov | --- | Michael Cronin |
| Lord Halifax | --- | Michael Culver |
| Colvin | --- | John Elmes |
| MacDonald | --- | Jack Galloway |
| Wallace | --- | Richard Heffer |
| Count Ciano | --- | James Laurenson |
| Dahlerus | --- | Hilary Minster |
| Hore-Belisha | --- | Lee Montague |
| Beck | --- | Stephen Moore |
| Stalin | --- | Alex Norton |
| Bullitt | --- | Bob Sherman |
| Phipps | --- | Ronnie Stevens |
| Lipski | --- | Bill Stewart |
| Hacha | --- | John Stratton |
| Daladier | --- | David Swift |
| Joachim Von Ribbentrop | --- | John Woodvine |
Directed by Patrick Lau
Original Music by Richard Harvey
