Year: 1989
Runtime: 78 mins
Language: English
Director: Patrick Lau
Adapted from a stage play, the film dramatizes the high‑stakes diplomatic negotiations among the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Nazi‑Germany and the USSR, beginning with the collapse of Czechoslovakia and culminating in Britain’s declaration of war after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It portrays the tense buildup to World War II.
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