Valkyrie (2008)


Tom Cruise              Col. Claus von Stauffenberg
Bill Nighy              General Friedrich Olbricht/ General Friedrich Olbricht
Tom Wilkinson           General Friedrich Fromm
Carice van Houten       Nina von Stauffenberg
Eddie Izzard            General Erich Fellgiebel
Thomas Kretschmann      Major Otto Ernst Remer
Terence Stamp           Gen. Ludwig Beck/ Ludwig Beck
Christian Berkel        Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim
Kenneth Branagh         Major-General Henning von Tresckow/ Major-General Henning von Tresckow
Halina Reijn            Margarethe von Oven
David Bamber            Adolf Hitler/ Adolf Hitler
Kevin McNally           Dr. Carl Goerdeler
Jamie Parker            Lieutenant Werner von Haeften
Tom Hollander           Colonel Heinz Brandt
David Schofield         Adolf Hitler
Werner Daehn            Major Ernst John von Freyend
Harvey Friedman         Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Matthias Schweighoefer  Lieutenant Herber
Waldemar Kobus          Police Chief Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf
Florian Panzner (II)    Second Lieutenant Hagen
Ian McNeice (II)        Pompous General
Danny Webb              Captain Haans
Chris Larkin            Sergeant Helm
Matthew Burton          Lieutenant-General Adolf Heusinger
Wotan Wilke Mohring     Sergeant Kolbe
Christian Oliver        Sergeant-Major Adam

Directed by:            Bryan Singer
Produced by:            Tom Cruise, Chris Lee, Ken Kamins, John Ottman


In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world 
where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of 
power decide to take action. Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring 
and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.

A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all 
the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. 
Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German 
resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation 
Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the 
inside.

With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his 
wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose 
Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself. 

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In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior 
German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed 
in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he 
must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the 
internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control 
of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a 
combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong 
the greater one gripping Europe.