Munich: The Edge of War

Munich: The Edge of War (2022)

Timing: 2:9 (129 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2022-01-06

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Turbine Studios, FremantleMedia, Euston Films, Turbine Studios

Genre

Drama, History

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/81144852

Director

Christian Schwochow

Actors

George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Jeremy Irons, Jessica Brown Findlay, August Diehl, Sandra Hüller, Alex Jennings, Ulrich Matthes, Liv Lisa Fries, Abigail Cruttenden
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Scenario

Producer

Andrew Eaton, Robert Harris, Daniel Hetzer

Operator

Frank Lamm

Composer

Artist

Audition

Anja Dihrberg, Simone Pereira Hind

Editing

Jens Klüber
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• Yannis Niewöhner and George MacKay play fictional characters, but screenwriter Robert Harris claims that their images contain traits of the real diplomat Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944) and a scientist named A.L. Rose (1903-1997). Rose was gay and felt platonic attraction to Trott. Trott, who was a less amiable man than Hartmann in the film, became involved in the conspiracy of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (1907-1944) against Hitler in 1944, but the conspiracy failed and Trott was executed.
• Actor George MacKay learned German for the role of Hugh Legat.
• The document that Helen shows Paul at her home is the Hossbach Memorandum – a record of a meeting of the highest military and foreign policy leadership of Nazi Germany, in which Hitler outlined his expansionist plans. The document is named after the record-keeper and military adjutant to Hitler, Colonel Count Friedrich Hossbach (1894-1980). After the war began, the memorandum was reworked into the General Plan Ost – a plan of genocide and ethnic cleansing that envisioned the deportation of 31 million people to the east, to Siberia, where they would face systematic extermination through starvation and unbearable working conditions, so that the territories they left could be colonized by ethnic Germans.
• Paul is warned that he should not smell of cigarette smoke if he is to have an audience with the Führer. This detail is based on a real fact – Hitler detested cigarette smoke and did not allow anyone to smoke in his presence.