Munich: The Edge of War – 7.5

A totally engaging if fanciful account of events surrounding the Munich conference of 1938 which hews to known historical facts and lends itself to a revisionist assessment of the agreement’s merits. The armature of the Chamberlain-Hitler negotiations supports an engaging fictional intrigue involving recent Oxford grads with minor positions in England’s and Germany’s ministries. This good, old-fashioned movie storytelling was needed relief from the more idiosyncratic films that have been filling our evenings. A bonus was recognizing so many European actors we were familiar with from, inter alia, 1917, Babylon Berlin , Toni Erdmann, The Crown and, of course, Brideshead Revisited.