I have read many books on this period and on the individuals involved. I have also visited the building where the agreement was signed. I believe that it is is now a music school. The room where the discussions took place was Hitlers Office,and this was kept shut.
Firstly two gripes. I found the handheld camera to be extremely annoying. The subtitles seemed to flash up on the screen and disappear before i had a chance to read them.
The fictional part of this film is entertaining,without generating much tension. After all we know how history played out.
The circumstances relating to the signing of the agreement were concertined,there were two trips to Germany.
The influence of Horace Wilson,the Cabinet Secretary,was slightly glossed over. He controlled policy and Chamberlain entirely. Chamberlain himself was an autocrat. He decided policy without consulting colleagues. As is shown in the film he left his Foreign Secretary,Lord Halifax,at home. He wanted nobody to argue or challenge his views. He had this solid belief in his own judgment,which might be ok if you are Lord Mayor of Birmingham but not if you are Prime Minister.
At no time did he understand that Hitler actually wanted to go to war and that he regarded the declaration as worthless.
One can only conjecture how the history of Europe and the world would have played out if Chamberlain had stood up to Hitler in 1938.
Incidentally the German Generals tried to arrange a meeting with Chamberlain some time before Munich but were rebuffed by Horace Wilson.
Firstly two gripes. I found the handheld camera to be extremely annoying. The subtitles seemed to flash up on the screen and disappear before i had a chance to read them.
The fictional part of this film is entertaining,without generating much tension. After all we know how history played out.
The circumstances relating to the signing of the agreement were concertined,there were two trips to Germany.
The influence of Horace Wilson,the Cabinet Secretary,was slightly glossed over. He controlled policy and Chamberlain entirely. Chamberlain himself was an autocrat. He decided policy without consulting colleagues. As is shown in the film he left his Foreign Secretary,Lord Halifax,at home. He wanted nobody to argue or challenge his views. He had this solid belief in his own judgment,which might be ok if you are Lord Mayor of Birmingham but not if you are Prime Minister.
At no time did he understand that Hitler actually wanted to go to war and that he regarded the declaration as worthless.
One can only conjecture how the history of Europe and the world would have played out if Chamberlain had stood up to Hitler in 1938.
Incidentally the German Generals tried to arrange a meeting with Chamberlain some time before Munich but were rebuffed by Horace Wilson.