Portesham Picture Palace
Dear Friends:
Welcome to a season of films to be shown in the village hall, generally on the last Sunday of each month (please check) from September until May.
We are a not for profit organisation and any surplus funds from food etc will be fed back to the hall.
24th November 2024
"MUNICH The Edge of War"
12A 130 minutes
Doors open at 18.00 for supper, if required.
Lights down at 19.00
PLEASE NOTE, SHOULD WE HAVE INSUFFICIENT TAKE UP WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THE EVENT WITH A FULL REFUND
Price: GRATIS
A Supper of Venison Goulash or vegetarian equivalent prepared, cooked & served by the good folk from The Kings Arms is available @ £10.00
+ £2.00 for Ice Creams
For further details and to reserve your seat, please contact Keith on 871925/07818032416 or email keith.brignell@sky.com
We much prefer payment for supper via BACS please to the picture palace account no 61852779 sort code 40.46.23
alternatively you can pay by card or cash on the day.
Thank you!
24th November
Although the main characters are fictionalized, the best selling author, Robert Harris and film have given Chamberlain a more sympathetic role in the build-up to World War II. Often deemed a coward for his "appeasement" of Hitler, some have taken the view that the Munich Conference was a stalling tactic to allow Britain to prepare for an inevitable war with Nazi Germany.
The film itself portrays the conference as a "best case, worst case" scenario. In the best case, Hitler would cease his planned invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the worst case, the letter of agreement would give Britain time to consolidate allies, rearm the military and perhaps get the United States involved.
It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain's government desperately seeks a peaceful solution.
With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger.
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A successful British van salesman decides to open a bank that uses local money to fund local enterprises. However, he soon fights an uphill battle as he tries to convince the elite London-based financial authorities to grant him a new bank license.