George MacKay as Hugh Legat and Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain in a still from Munich: The Edge of War.A year before the outbreak of the second world war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain travelled to Munich to meet German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in the hope of brokering a peace that would prevent Europe being once again sucked into a lengthy and debilitating conflict.
Adapted from Robert Harris' 2017 novel Munich, Schwochow's film explores the strained relationship between Germany and Great Britain through the evolving friendship of two Oxford University graduates.Hugh Legat goes on to become Chamberlain's personal secretary in Downing Street, while Paul von Hartmann is an idealistic German student, whose initial support of Hitler has soured by the time the Wehrmacht invades the Czechoslovakian region of Sudetenland in September 1938.
However, rather than take the Tarantino route of discarding historical fact in favour of wish-fulfilment fantasy, Schwochow's film, like The Day of the Jackal or Valkyrie, wrings tension from the meticulous details of the clandestine meeting and the frustrations that arise when those in a position to change the course of history fail to do so.
Racked with guilt for not having fought in The Great War and defiant in his decision to avoid another war, Chamberlain is painted as a noble yet woefully naive relic of a bygone era.
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