MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR

This tense, clever and thoroughly gripping adaptation of Robert

Harris’s historical thriller gives a much-maligned appeaser an intriguing makeover.

Jeremy Irons’ Neville Chamberlain is nobody’s fool. He’s a wily schemer prepared to tarnish his own reputation to buy time to re-arm and prepare his people for an inevitable war.

Here, Chamberlain’s machinations at the infamous Munich Conference of 1938 are seen through the bewildered eyes of Hugh Legat, one of the PM’S aides, played by George Mckay.

A 1932 prologue sees stiff-upper-lipped

In cinemas now, on Netflix from January 21 HIGH STAKES Jeremy Irons and George Mckay