Countdown to War (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.
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
Richard Heffer
Wallace
Bernard Gallagher
Greenwood
Robert Ashby
Bonnet
Alex Norton
Stalin
Michael Cronin
Molotov
James Laurenson
Ciano
Barrie Rutter
Mussolini
Stephen Moore
Beck
Bill Stewart
Lipski
John Stratton
Hacha