Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.

Ian McKellen
Adolf Hitler

Michael Aldridge
Neville Chamberlain

Tony Britton
Sir Nevile Henderson

John Woodvine
Joachim von Ribbentrop

Peter Vaughan
Hermann Goering

Michael Culver
Halifax

Anthony Bate
Simon

Lee Montague
Hore-Belisha

Jonathan Coy
Butler

Ronnie Stevens
Phipps
Jack Galloway
MacDonald

Richard Heffer
Wallace
John Elmes
Colvin

Bernard Gallagher
Greenwood
David Swift
Daladier