A TV mini-series that unveils the behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.
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Three episodes of a docudrama that present the background to the First World War, since the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the declarations of war of various contenders. That means the thirty seven days elapsed between 28 June and 4 August 1914. The scenarios are the Foreign Office, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose secretary was Sir Edward Grey series, and the German Chancellery in Berlin, so that the action is narrated by two young clerks who, after thirty-seven days, enlist in the armed forces . The miniseries is a mixture of drama and documentary, its tone is somewhat aseptically dry in which many details are simplified, but it highlights some aspects in order to answer the question that the viewer makes constantly: how we go from peace to war in just over a month? Though the series lop sides at a very British viewpoint and can't help to look at characters often caricatured, as Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, the ... Written by bobbuckingham
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5 March 2014 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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It falls short of 'Shakespearean' though it is largely accurate. Some dubious casting and location shooting suggests they'd have been better off 'interpretting' the scenes ala 'Oh, What a Lovely War'. Re-interpreted as a 90 minute movie the sub-story of romance in the office might carry it. I half expected to find the junior clerk from the British Foreign Office at the bayonet end of his counterpart from the Richtstag . Armed with a transcript and played in excerpts this would be a valuable 'Open Educational Resource' - better than showing 'Blackadder', more objective than the massive 1964 'The Great WR' too. Worth discussing across the social media to understand what the origins and causes of the First World War were.
It's hardly a spoiler, but they do go to war and millions die.