What was the name of the anti-war student protests called in Munich in 1942

Proud German transplant Paul ( Jannis Niewöhner) yells about the German “identity” to his unconcerned British friend Hugh ( George MacKay) and his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Lenya ( Liv Lisa Fries). “Munich - The Edge of War” would still be charmless and drawn-out even if its pleas for down-to-the-wire tolerance weren’t made by polite gentiles who are constantly shown to be thinking about their responsibilities to their country (however that’s defined), without addressing the Jews who were threatened, demonized, and then exterminated by the Nazis.īut it was a different time, you might say even before seeing the movie’s leaden introductory flashback: we join three college buddies at Oxford University in 1932 as they drink champagne, gawk at fireworks, and declaim about their “mad generation.” It’s the end of an era for these kids since their comfy bubble is about to go pop.

This movie’s tempered, heavily qualified answer is not only upsetting, but also built up to in such a way that, even when the movie’s not a stuffy kind of historic fan-fiction, it’s still presented with drab cinematography, insistent dialogue, and contrived dramatic twists. Once Hitler enters the picture, “Munich - The Edge of War” inevitably flirts with the old thought experiment about whether or not you would go back in time to kill a genocidal fascist.

What was the name of the anti-war student protests called in Munich in 1942