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- 2022
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 2 h 10 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 2 h 10 m
Summary A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
Directed By: Christian Schwochow
Written By: Ben Power, Robert Harris
- 2022
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 2 h 10 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 2 h 10 m
Munich: The Edge of War
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Summary A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
Directed By: Christian Schwochow
Written By: Ben Power, Robert Harris
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
53
25% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
75% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
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It’s not a stretch to expect that a film about the infamous Munich Conference to be a ripe bundle of nerves and apprehension. But the film ends up being as suspenseful as a 1990s rom-com.
Tight close-ups, jittery hand-held camera — lots and lots of jittery hand-held camera. The idea, presumably, is to impart urgency, immediacy, dynamism. Instead it causes visual exhaustion.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 User Ratings
5.9
45% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
39% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
16% Negative
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6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 User Ratings
5.9
45% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
39% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
16% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Well done. Felt like a desperate attempt to redeem Chamberlain. Iron's performance is absolutely glorious. The two main characters transmit their anxiety and frustration extremely well. The German language emerged in all its beauty. A
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Munich: The Edge of War is a well-made period piece able to stage necessary tension despite its real-life story being so well-known.
In place of depth, MacKay and Niewöhner invest Legat and Hartmann’s relationship with a watchable if uncomplicated friction, but it’s when the Führer himself first appears, more than half an hour into the film, that things really start to cook.
An ingenious, elegant counterfactual drama.
With handsome period craft, “Munich — Edge of War” makes for a watchable, engrossing historical thriller with fictional characters situated like spies around political leaders at a profoundly tense, and ultimately woefully misjudged, moment in time.
A plodding bureaucratic procedural that features many, many characters strategizing in various spaces with furrowed brows and clenched jaws, mostly in relentless medium close-up.
George MacKay plays a young British diplomat who works for Prime Minister Chamberlain in 30s England. He's enlisted to travel with him to Munich, where they'll be meeting with **** and other world leaders. One of his former Oxford classmates (Jannis Niewöhner) works for the German government, so they plan a covert meeting in an attempt to avert World War II. The performances are compelling and it's sufficiently crafted, but the expected danger and subsequent anxiety never materializes. While the historical conference is based on fact, this fictionalized angle turns out to be more about the relationships than a tense spy thriller.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Two years ago George MacKay had already been the protagonist of "1917" and I find it interesting to compare the two films, the one on the 1st World War and this on the preparations for the 2nd. If Mendes focused on virtuosity and war horrors, Schwochow has preferred a more conventional and intense historical drama. We know what will happen after the Munich Agreement, but not so much about what happened before. Within a few years the Oxford friends were catapulted into the devastation of their projects, dreams, expectations, hopes for the future, and pointing out the fleetingness of youthful illusions provides a depth that transcends the contingency of the event in itself.
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Well, no Czech/Czechoslovakian point of view, very ambitious project with very poor performance, **** played by Goebbels with Stalin moustache, some kind of apologezy of Munich betrayal.
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Production Company
Turbine Studios,
Netflix
Release Date Jan 7, 2022
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Secrets. Betrayal. Treason.
Awards
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination
World Soundtrack Awards
• 1 Nomination
