Michael Jayston Playing Real Life Characters - Alfred Maiberling ("Gossip From the Forest", 1979) - Clips

Drama about the signing, in a train wagon at Compiegne, of the Armistice, at the end of the First World War, between the Entente and Germany (11 November 1918). With Hugh Burden (Marshal Ferdinand Foch), Michael Jayston (Alfred Maiberling), Ronald Hines (Admiral Roslynn Wemyss), Michael Mellinger (General Weygand), John McGregor (Admiral Hope), Frank Compton (Premier Clemenceau), David Swift (General Groener), Vernon Dobtcheff (General von Winterfeldt), Constantine Gregory (Captain Vanselow), John Shrapnel (Matthias Erzberger), Christopher Ravenscroft. Based on a book by Thomas Keneally. Directed and screenplay by Brian Gibson.