Valkyrie (2008)
Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.
Director: Bryan Singer · Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Nathan Alexander
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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Director
Bryan Singer
Cast
Tom Cruise
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 
Kenneth Branagh
Henning von Tresckow 
Bill Nighy
Friedrich Olbricht 
Terence Stamp
Ludwig Beck 
Tom Wilkinson
Friedrich Fromm 
Carice van Houten
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg 
Kenneth Cranham
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel 
Thomas Kretschmann
Otto Ernst Remer 
Suzy Eddie Izzard
Erich Fellgiebel 
Kevin McNally
Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler 
David Bamber
Adolf Hitler 
Tom Hollander
Colonel Heinz Brandt User Reviews (2)
Not all Germans supported that madman RELEASED IN 2008 and directed by Bryan Singer, "Valkyrie" is a World War II crime thriller based on the true story of the last German plot to assassinate Hitler in the Summer of 1944, although it wasn't a crime, of course, but rather an act of heroism. Tom Cruise resembles the protagonist, Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg, but he lacks his height. Despite this, Cruise is solid in the role and the story works up some quality suspense. Even though we know the plot will fail, you can't help but root for the dissenters' success. Almost 5000 Germans were subsequently executed on grounds of treason for the failed attempt, although not all of them were connected to this specific conspiracy. The film is both entertaining and educational. It shows that there were thousands of Germans who were willing to risk all to get that lunatic out of office. And t…
Tom Cruise sports an eye-patch as he takes on the role of Nazi war hero Claus von Stauffenberg. Badly injured he returns to Germany where he is quickly appointed to staff rank with regular access to an appreciative Führer (David Bamber). His arrival co-insides with the increasingly stark realisation from many politicians and officers alike that their hopes of winning the war were dwindling and that something is going to have to be done about removing their neurotic Chancellor and instituting a new national order that might be able to negotiate some sort of peace. Of course, some of the High Command were still fiercely loyal so it was a bit of an eggshell treading operation for von Stauffenberg and his allies as they are not sure whom to trust whilst they put a daring plan into action that could result in a coup treasonable in anyone’s book if they fail. Relying on a fair-to-middling s…
