Historical drama 'Munich: The Edge of War' is the ultimate dad movie—in the best way
, at least among those who aren’t actual dads, tend to be undervalued pleasures; they pluck a certain satisfying, resonant chord, often without being particularly flashy.directed by Christian Schwochow and adapted from Robert Harris’ 2017 novel, is the ultimate dad movie: its setting is the
in which European leaders met with Hitler in an earnest, if naive, attempt to stave off war. That part really happened. The more intimate storyweaves around that event—involving two young men, one German and one English, who attempt a risky plot to stop Hitler—is largely fiction. Yet the made-up narrative melts seamlessly into the historical one. If the movie is handsome in an oak-paneled-office way, there’s life in it too.
Even so, Hugh sees that war is coming. And over in Germany, his old school friend Paul has an even better idea of how horrible and far-reaching that conflict might be. He’s now part of a resistance group plotting to stop, and maybe even kill, Hitler. The girlfriend—her name is Lenya, and she’s played by the marvelous, somber-eyed German actor Liv Lisa Fries, from—is nowhere on the scene; we’ll learn of her sad fate later.
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