The film takes place on the eve of the Second World War, following UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Jeremy Irons) as he attempts to avoid another global conflict by pursuing his policy of appeasement.<\/p>\n
Most of the action unfolds in the run up to and at the Munich Peace Conference in 1938, where an agreement was reached between the UK, Germany, France and Italy that aimed to prevent war \u2013 in part by allowing the German annexation\u00a0of the\u00a0Sudetenland\u00a0in Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n These events very much happened (although some historians have claimed that Chamberlain is portrayed much more sympathetically in the film than was the reality) but where the fiction comes into it is the storyline concerning Hugh Legat and Paul von Hartmann, the two central characters played by George MacKay and Jannis Niew\u00f6hner, who find themselves embroiled in a plot to bring down Adolf Hitler.<\/p> While there was indeed a conspiracy to kill Hitler in 1938, the manner in which this played out is not the same as the events we see in the film, and Hugh and Paul are both fictional characters \u2013 although the latter is reportedly loosely based on an anti-Nazi diplomat named Adam von Trott.<\/p>\n Despite this plot being fictional, however, both MacKay and Niew\u00f6hner told RadioTimes.com<\/a> just how much research had gone in to the project to make sure the film was at least based in historical truth.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was the most amazing document made by the production team, where it was a website that you could log into,\u201d MacKay explains. \u201cAnd it was so extraordinary because for every historical character it would have links to websites, essays, historical footage, photographs, just an encyclopaedia of reading on each specific character, so that you could gain context for them.<\/p>\n \u201cThen each department would put up location photos, or costume would have the designs up there so you could start to understand the world and the context of the world for each step,\u201d he adds. \u201cSo there was this amazing bit of historical research on Oxford University in the \u201930s, and the debating clubs, and some of the influence and some of the debates that ended up being in the British press.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that sort of stuff became a theme of the film, like the sport of discussion. And then there was stuff about like gender roles within that time within the university, all of these things, which just really gave sort of flesh and texture to the script.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat was really amazing that we had this website, and everyone could go there,\u201d adds Niew\u00f6hner. \u201cWe could read something about the real-life characters, and then there were many books I could read, because for me it was very interesting to get a sense of that period of time where Paul was a child \u2013 because that\u2019s where his motivation comes from.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we get to know him in \u201932, he really believes in what Hitler says. And to get a sense of how it came to that was really, really interesting for me, and so there were many books and documentaries. I always found it really interesting to see a documentary which was colourised, not black and white, so you can really connect to the story in a different way.<\/p>\n \u201cI actually didn\u2019t know a lot about the Munich peace agreement, I may have heard of it, but I didn\u2019t really know what it was about,\u201d Niew\u00f6hner continues. \u201cAnd Chamberlain is not a big name [In Germany], not as big as in the UK, obviously. So it was really interesting for me to learn more about this part of history.\u201d<\/p>\n Munich \u2013 The Edge of War is on Netflix from Friday 21st January 2022.\u00a0<\/strong>Check out our lists of the\u00a0best series on Netflix<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0best movies on Netflix<\/span><\/a>, or see\u00a0<\/span>what else is on with our\u00a0TV Guide.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/body><\/html>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 21 January 2022 at 12:00 am New Netflix film Munich \u2013 The Edge of War might tell a fictional story, but it is nonetheless very much steeped in real historical events. 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