
Have you caught Christian Schwochow's historical drama
Munich yet, based on Robert Harris' award-winning pre-World War II novel? Deadline called it "a gripping watch," the Times "a must-see thriller."
If you missed our Goethe Film Talk with Piers Handling, catch the capture here.
Following on the heels of Je Suis Karl (also on Netflix and also starring Berlinale Shooting Star Jannis Niewöhner), Schwochow's feverish dissection of the continuing lure of fascism, the director takes us back to Munich 1938 and the momentous meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler that would decide Europe's future.
In our Goethe Film Talk on 28 January, we are adding a North American perspective on the Netflix UK production and its historical setting with our guest Piers Handling (TIFF). Handling led the Toronto International Film Festival as CEO for three decades and is intimately familiar with European cinema, having curated for the British Film Institute among others. He is also a trained historian and spent time in Germany, where his father was stationed with the Canadian army. Handling will be in conversation with Toronto arts journalist Eric Veillette and will take audience questions.
Netflix Watch Event & Live Online Q&A 28 January 2022
How it works:
On 28 January 2022, watch Munich: The Edge of War on Netflix at 6pm EST, then join us right after at 8:15pm EST for a virtual Goethe Film Talk.
Munich: The Edge of War
(UK 2021, 123 min), directed by Christian Schwochow (Je Suis Karl; The Crown; West), starring Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, August Diehl, Sandra Hüller, Liv Lisa Fries, Ulrich Matthes as Hitler, and others.
Original music by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Emma; Fleabag).
A European star cast tells the story of the grave emergency meeting which might have prevented the Second World War (or not?).
Munich paints the picture of the seemingly unstoppable developments unfolding in Europe from the perspective of two young, idealistic diplomats, frantically trying to change the course of history.
Watch the
trailer.
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
by
@JuttaBrendemuhl
image: courtesy instagram.com/christianschwochow