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Release year: 2012

Storyline

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Top credits

Directors

Niki Stein

Writers

Niki Stein

Cast

Ulrich Tukur — Erwin Rommel
Tim Bergmann — Oberstleutnant Hofacker
Johannes Silberschneider — Adolf Hitler
Benjamin Sadler — Gen. Speidel

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Did you know

• After his father's death, Manfred Rommel was conscripted to the paramilitary work service until his desertion and capture by the French First Army in April 1945. After the war, Manfred Rommel studied law at the University of Tübingen. In 1974 he was elected mayor of Suttgart and began a much-publicized friendship with U.S. Army Major General George S. Patton IV, the son of his father's World War II adversary, George S. Patton. He was also friends with David Montgomery, the son of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

• While a lot of German generals are presented in this movie, Von Rundstedt usually did not wear the general's collar insignia, but the regular officer's double bar with a white background from the parade uniform. These were signs of his rank as honorary colonel of his old regiment. It is as peculiar as Montgomery with his two badges on his beret. The white double bar can be seen on the movie A Bridge Too Far (1977), with Wolfgang Preiss as Von Rundstedt.

• Contrails were frequently left by bombers flying at high altitude over Germany. Any visible during this film should not be considered anachronisms. Even though those in the film probably were made by jets, they were not unusual at that time.