37 Days (2014) ( Thirty Seven Days )

37 Days (2014) (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Alternate Title: Thirty Seven Days
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
177 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Justin Hardy

Written By:
Mark Hayhurst

Actors:
Ian McDiarmid ..... Edward Grey (3 episodes, 2014)
Nicholas Farrell ..... Eyre Crowe (3 episodes, 2014)
Tim Pigott-Smith ..... Herbert Henry Asquith (3 episodes, 2014)
Sinéad Cusack ..... Margot Asquith (3 episodes, 2014)
Bill Paterson ..... Lord Morley (3 episodes, 2014)
Kenneth Cranham ..... John Burns (3 episodes, 2014)
Ludger Pistor ..... Bethmann-Hollweg (3 episodes, 2014)
Rainer Sellien ..... Kaiser Wilhelm II (3 episodes, 2014)
Bernhard Schütz ..... Helmuth Moltke (3 episodes, 2014)
Mark Lewis Jones ..... David Lloyd George (3 episodes, 2014)
Nicholas Asbury ..... Winston Churchill (3 episodes, 2014)
Urs Remond ..... Prince Lichnowsky (3 episodes, 2014)
James McArdle ..... Alec (3 episodes, 2014)
André Kaczmarczyk ..... Jens (3 episodes, 2014)
Holger Kunkel ..... Falkenhayn (3 episodes, 2014)
Stephan Szasz ..... Jagow (3 episodes, 2014)
Kate Ambler ..... Muriel (3 episodes, 2014)
Roman Beguns ..... Russian Secretary (3 episodes, 2014)
François-Eric Gendron ..... Paul Cambon (2 episodes, 2014)
Niall Cusack ..... Benckendorff (2 episodes, 2014)
George Lenz ..... Mensdorff (2 episodes, 2014)
Chris Kelly ..... Gavrilo Princip (2 episodes, 2014)

Synopsis:

A stellar cast, led by Ian McDiarmid and Tim Piggott-Smith, reveal the complex behind-closed-doors story of the countdown to World War One in this political thriller following the catastrophic chain of events that led from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28th June 1914, to the declaration of war between Britain and Germany on 4th August. Written by Mark Hayhurst, this tense and gripping serial set within the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. With scripts crafted from primary source research, 37 Days also stars Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson, Nicholas Farrell , Kenneth Cranham, rising star James McArdle, and a leading cast from Germany and France.

Season 1
One Month in Summer
S1, Ep1
5 Mar. 2014
One Month in Summer
June 28, 1914:- Young Foreign Office clerk Alec recounts his delivering a telegram to his German-born boss, assistant under secretary Eyre Crowe, informing that the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife have been murdered in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand gang who resent Austrian influence in Serbia. In Berlin another young civil servant Jens takes up the story, reflecting on the German Kaiser Wilhelm's friendship with the dead man. Wilhelm hates the Serbians and sees the slaying as an act of aggression by the nation.

One Week in July
S1, Ep2
7 Mar. 2014
One Week in July
The Foreign Office is perturbed to learn that Austria wants war in the Balkans with an impossible ultimatum backed by Germany. Grey summons the Austrian ambassador to no avail and his peace proposal to the reasonable Lichnowsky is not immediately acceptable to the unstable Kaiser, particularly when he learns that the Russian army is mobilizing on its Austro-Hungarian border. Grey still holds out for mediation, appealing to Paul Cambon, ambassador to France, Russia's ally, not to let his country be goaded into war but Churchill surmises that Germany is trying to ...

One Long Weekend
S1, Ep3
8 Mar. 2014
One Long Weekend
Learning that Grey had advised Germany of French neutrality without the knowledge of France George V informs Wilhelm that there has been a 'misunderstanding', a statement that fuels the German belief in British duplicity. Hatred of socialism also makes war seem attractive and, to Jens' horror, the parliament vote for war credits. In England at another contentious cabinet meeting Grey and Asquith point out Britain's duty to upholding the Entente Cordiale supporting France in the likelihood of invasion, after which French ambassador Cambon requests a British military...

June 28, 1914:- Young Foreign Office clerk Alec recounts his delivering a telegram to his German-born boss, assistant under secretary Eyre Crowe, informing that the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife have been murdered in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand gang who resent Austrian influence in Serbia. In Berlin another young civil servant Jens takes up the story, reflecting on the German Kaiser Wilhelm's friendship with the dead man. Wilhelm hates the Serbians and sees the slaying as an act of aggression by the nation. He sends ambassador Lichnowsky to London to sound out Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey as to what would happen if Britain and Russia championed their ally Serba but Grey is more concerned with problems over Ireland and, of his cabinet, only Winston Churchill foresees any great danger looming. Grey wants to instigate peace talks among the nations involved but in Berlin Wilhelm and his chief of staff Von Moltke are bent on revenge. Europe is now only thirteen days away from war.

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