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Release year: 2008

Storyline

A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.

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Directors

Bryan Singer

Writers

Cast

Tom Cruise — Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Bill Nighy — General Friedrich Olbricht
Carice van Houten — Nina von Stauffenberg
Kenneth Branagh — Major-General Henning von Tresckow

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Did you know

• After the conspirators were executed by order of General Fromm, the subtitle correctly states that Fromm was executed on March 12, 1945. However, because at trial he was not directly connected to the conspiracy, he was instead convicted of "cowardice before the enemy". For this conviction, he was executed by military firing squad. Interestingly, at his death, Fromm was technically a civilian, having been discharged from the Army on September 14, 1944.

• Philipp von Schulthess, who plays Tresckow's aide in this movie, is the grandson of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. In the movie, Countess Nina Von Stauffenberg is pregnant with the mother of Philipp von Schulthess.

• The teleprinter room which appears several times in this movie, is a highly accurate depiction. Nearly thirty historically correct original teleprinter machines of various types were used. Some were provided by collector and technical consultant Henning Treumann, and some borrowed from other sources. All of the machines were fully operational, and, in the movie, are all printing authentic archival messages from the Nazi era, fed from off-screen teletype machines and notebook computers.