Munich: The Edge of War

Munich: The Edge of War

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

  • Released: 2022-01-06
  • Runtime: 129 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History, Thrillers
  • Stars: George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Liv Lisa Fries, Sandra Hüller, Jeremy Irons, Martin Wuttke, August Diehl, Martin Kiefer, Robert Bathurst, Marc Limpach, Erin Doherty, Ulrich Matthes, Mark Lewis Jones, Alex Jennings, Jessica Brown Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Oscar Hoppe, Jeremy Mockridge, Hannes Wegener, Nick Wymer, Raphael Sowole, Ludwig Simon, Nellie Thalbach, Aidan Hennessey, Nicholas Farrell, Tara Nome Doyle, Rainer Sellien, Abigail Cruttenden, Helen Clyro, Nicholas Shaw, Richard Dillane, Domenico Fortunato, Stéphane Boucher, Leni Erceg, Margit Bendokat, Ryan Wichert
  • Director: Christian Schwochow
 Comments
  • lishalinski-21-474706 - 25 November 2023
    As a fiction, it's brilliant
    The acting is excellent and it's a gripping story about a few days surrounding the Munich agreement. I saw that the rating was 6.8 and I thought that was brutally unfair, for the quality of the acting. This isn't my usual fare - I watched it only because my father likes war films. So for me to enjoy it when I normally find them somewhat dull and repetitive I thought it was definitely worth more than 6.8

    I didn't know till I came here to leave a review how historically inaccurate it was. Indeed my father was muttering darkly about Chamberlain all the way though, which based on the movie I thought seemed unfair. Now, thanks to all the reviews, I am educated, which is great, but it was still a great film with some staggering performances by the leads, and deserves more recognition.
  • borgolarici - 20 January 2023
    Could have been so much better
    The diplomacy race against time to save Europe (and the world) from war is enthralling: you can see what happens behind the curtains and how many people live on edge and adrenaline to allow global issues to run as smoothly as possible. If the movie focused solely on this, it would have been so much better. Sadly, we are served the usual cliché subplot: the neurotic wife who doesn't understand how the adult world works, the repent ex Nazi, long lost friends... all very boring and already seen. Seems like we can't have adult movies anymore without them being filled with soap opera elements.

    I hate the new character limit.