{"id":9870,"date":"2022-01-12T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1547918"},"modified":"2022-01-12T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:08:12","slug":"munich-the-edge-of-war-release-date-cast-and-plot-for-netflix-film","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/munich-the-edge-of-war-release-date-cast-and-plot-for-netflix-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich \u2013 The Edge of War: release date, cast and plot for Netflix film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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A couple of years ago, George MacKay won all sorts of plaudits for his turn in Sam Mendes\u2019 First World War film 1917, and now he\u2019s starring in a new film that sees him aim to prevent the start of another major conflict: World War Two.<\/p>\n

Netflix original Munich \u2013 The Edge of War is adapted from a historical fiction novel by Robert Harris, and also stars Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, as he aims to bring about a peaceful solution and avoid the outbreak of War in 1938.<\/p>\n

Read on for everything you need to know about the film, including when it\u2019s released on Netflix and who else features in the cast.<\/p>

Munich \u2013 The Edge of War release date<\/h2>\n

The film was initially released in select cinemas on Friday 7th January 2022, two weeks before it arrives on Netflix on Friday 21st January 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Munich \u2013 The Edge of War plot<\/h2>\n

The film is based on Robert Harris\u2019 2017 novel Munich, which blends fact and fiction to tell a story set on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War.<\/p>\n

The film revolves around a fictional political aide named Hugh Legat, who along with a former University friend from Germany becomes involved in a plot to bring about Hitler\u2019s demise at an emergency conference in Munich \u2013 all while Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain continues to enact a policy of appeasement.<\/p>\n

The official Netflix plot synopsis reads, \u201cIt is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain\u2019s government desperately seeks a peaceful solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger. With the whole world watching, can war be averted and, if so, at what cost?\u201d<\/p>\n

Munich \u2013 The Edge of War cast<\/h2>\n
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1917 star George MacKay leads the cast as fictional political aide Hugh Legat, with German actor Jannis Niew\u00f6hner starring as his former university friend Paul von Hartmann, who now works as a German diplomat.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jeremy Irons stars as former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain \u2013 one of many real historical figures to appear in the film \u2013 while Mark Lewis Jones (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) plays his Private secretary Sir Osmund Cleverly and Ulrich Matthes, who played Joseph Goebbels in the hugely successful 2004 film Downfall, plays Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

Other cast members include Downton Abbey\u2019s Jessica Brown Findlay, Vigil\u2019s Anjli Mohindra, Toni Erdmann\u2019s Sandra Huller, Babylon Berlin\u2019s Liv Lisa Fries and Inglourious Basterds star August Diehl.<\/p>\n

Munich \u2013 The Edge of War trailer<\/h2>\n

You can check out a trailer for the film below \u2013 which teases the task handed to George MacKay\u2019s Hugh Legat, and gives a glimpse of Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain.<\/p>\n