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The Phoney War

Drôle de guerre

  • Status: Released
  • 27-08-2019
  • Runtime: 92 min
  • Score: 8
  • Vote count: 3

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

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Éric Caravaca

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Chamerois

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jean-Marie Fonbonne

Self - Narrator (voice)

Laurent Lederer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Anna Flori-Lamour

Self - Narrator (voice)

Céline Payen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Fernand Bignon

Self - Photographer (archive footage)

Jacqueline Bignon

Self - Bignon's Daughter (archive footage)

Maurice Gamelin

Self - Army General (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Walther Lenger

Self - Amateur Filmmaker (archive footage)

Günther Prien

Self - U-boat Commander (archive footage)

Walther von Brauchitsch

Self - Army General (archive footage)

Fernandel

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Albert Lebrun

Self - Politician (archive footage)

King George VI of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self - Politician (archive footage)

William Shepherd Morrison

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle

Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Paul Valéry

Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

Jean Giraudoux

Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

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