Countdown to War

Year: 1989

Runtime: 78 mins

Language: English

Director: Patrick Lau

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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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