Upcoming Netflix film shot at Rochdale Town Hall

Rochdale Town Hall

A new Netflix feature has been filming at Rochdale Town Hall this week.

According to the Daily Mail, the new film, Munich, is an adaptation from Robert Harris’ critically-acclaimed 2017 spy thriller of the same name.

The upcoming movie is understood to star Jeremy Irons as former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, documenting his 1938 trip to meet Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. Filming is understood to be taking place across Germany and the UK.

The Grade-I listed building has featured in a number of television shows, including Peaky Blinders, World On Fire and Scott & Bailey.

Chamberlain famously secured the Munich Agreement – permitting the German annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia – signed by both himself and Hitler. The agreement failed with World War Two breaking out a year later.

The Radio Times says additional cast members include 1917 actor George McKay, playing a British civil servant named Hugh Legat; Martin Wuttke, who played Adolf Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, reprising the same role here; August Diehl; Jannis Niehwöhner; Sandra Hüller; Liv Lisa Fries; and Erin Doherty, who plays Princess Anne in The Crown season four.

Munich is set to be released in 2021.

Netflix and Rochdale Borough Council have been approached for comment.