The Phoney War
2019September 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
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bertrand Chamerois
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jean-Marie Fonbonne
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Laurent Lederer
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Anna Flori-Lamour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Céline Payen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Fernand Bignon
as Self - Photographer (archive footage)
Jacqueline Bignon
as Self - Bignon's Daughter (archive footage)
Maurice Gamelin
as Self - Army General (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Walther Lenger
as Self - Amateur Filmmaker (archive footage)
Günther Prien
as Self - U-boat Commander (archive footage)
Walther von Brauchitsch
as Self - Army General (archive footage)
Fernandel
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Albert Lebrun
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
King George VI of the United Kingdom
as Self (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
William Shepherd Morrison
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
as Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Paul Valéry
as Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)
Jean Giraudoux
as Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)