L'Étau de Munich

Exciting and wonderful film about the beginning of the Second World War. The film is beautifully done and manages to entertain throughout its duration thanks to the grandiose atmosphere of tension it manages to create throughout its course.

Aside from poor casting, mediocre acting, maudlin characters, and marital/love relations that are not in the least credible, this movie offers a revisionist version of the 1938 Munich Agreement that excuses the betrayal of the Czechs by Britain and France by caving in to Hitler. The movie's makers would have us believe Britain's Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement merely as a way to buy time for war preparations, and that simply isn't true. Chamberlain falsely believed he had purchased a lasting peace. Well, I see Brits were makers of the movie, so I suppose they decided to make themselves feel a bit better. It's not a very good movie, in any case. Quite a disappointment.