The Phoney War

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.

History Documentary War TV Movie

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))