Munich: The Edge of War

Munich: The Edge of War

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

  • Released: 2022-01-06
  • Runtime: 129 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History, Thrillers
  • Stars: George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Liv Lisa Fries, Sandra Hüller, Jeremy Irons, Martin Wuttke, August Diehl, Martin Kiefer, Robert Bathurst, Marc Limpach, Erin Doherty, Ulrich Matthes, Mark Lewis Jones, Alex Jennings, Jessica Brown Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Oscar Hoppe, Jeremy Mockridge, Hannes Wegener, Nick Wymer, Raphael Sowole, Ludwig Simon, Nellie Thalbach, Aidan Hennessey, Nicholas Farrell, Tara Nome Doyle, Rainer Sellien, Abigail Cruttenden, Helen Clyro, Nicholas Shaw, Richard Dillane, Domenico Fortunato, Stéphane Boucher, Leni Erceg, Margit Bendokat, Ryan Wichert
  • Director: Christian Schwochow
 Comments
  • richarddudins - 19 June 2023
    Plays with history, has a weak writing.
    Munich: The edge of war is another example with Netflix struggles to make good quality movies. Movie has some good acting, but also bad acting. I understand what the movie wanted to say, but the way it was told was clichéic, the emotions were not authentic, and at times felt sterile, as if the director had just came out of cinematography school, where he was good- by the book student. The movie felt industrial. Like most netflix movies you wander, why and what did you just watch. Like wasted time.

    The movie also did not bring anything new. The camera work, or props was nothing to write home about. Some historical movies are worth to watch because of how beautiful, or how immersive the historic scene is painted, and there certainly is big potential in this topic. Instead the movie felt cheaply made, the emotional story sometimes felt like lacked any authentism, and felt fake. And as others have noted, the movie played with history. I mean, it told a perspective, which was interesting to consider, but is flawed, and it aint very advanced thought either historical dramas. As a history geek- this one, unfortuantely was waste of my time

    You are better of with other world war II movies.
  • beeryusa - 10 September 2022
    Great movie - and it's not supposed to be an historical film!
    This movie is based on a novel. It's not supposed to be a docu-drama, so I don't understand why so many people are criticizing it as if it is supposed to stick to historical facts. If Hitler had been killed during the movie, there would have been nothing wrong with that. Movies based on novels are fiction, so they are not - at all - bound by historical facts.

    As a fictional movie, I found Munich: The Edge of War to be gripping and intensely suspenseful. At some points my heart was racing - and all this for a film in which no one gets killed and there's not even any blood and virtually no swearing!

    I wish there were more movies like this made today. Instead moviegoers and TV watchers are constantly presented with storylines that are so tired that the only way to keep audiences awake is to pepper movies and TV series with graphic violence and gore.
  • cjonesas - 11 June 2022
    [7.4] The smell of his breath, the touch of the metal
    A mild and ineffective production depicting the Munich agreement (pact).

    It is just well in cinematography, some thought out development and to some extent acting, especially Paul.

    The ending is as fictional as is the movie's alternate reality.

    • Screenplay/story: 7
    • Development: 8
    • Realism: 7
    • Entertainment: 8
    • Acting: 8
    • Filming/cinematography: 8.5
    • Visual/special effects: 8
    • Music/score: 8.5
    • Depth: 7
    • Logic: 6
    • Flow: 8
    • Biography/drama/history: 6
    • Ending/closure: 6.
  • xdvoj22 - 23 April 2022
    This did not age well - within months
    *** Warning - great bias as a Czech spectator. ***

    We see how this appeaser apologetic farce did not age well over the months.

    Chamberlain is depicted as a master strategist but he was just a weak mediocre politician unfit to lead the country in the crisis.

    Another line is prominent in the fact it is not presented in the movie. That is the absence of Czechoslovaks in this film. We have a saying about Munich treason: "About us without us". And the movie fulfills this 100%.

    And with the events in Ukraine in recent days, the film takes on a new dimension, new "Chamberlains" have risen, such as Olaf Scholz. In fact the usage of "Chamberlain" is a great inslult in czech politics.

    2 stars because of good acting, otherwise painfull to watch due to the attempt to twist the history.