Movie
Valkyrie
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2008-12-25
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bad Hat Harry Productions, Achte Babelsberg Film, United Artists
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
- Kenneth Branagh as Henning von Tresckow
- Bill Nighy as Friedrich Olbricht
- Terence Stamp as Ludwig Beck
- Tom Wilkinson as Friedrich Fromm
- Carice van Houten as Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
- Kenneth Cranham as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- Thomas Kretschmann as Otto Ernst Remer
- Suzy Eddie Izzard as Erich Fellgiebel
- Kevin McNally as Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler
- David Bamber as Adolf Hitler
- Tom Hollander as Colonel Heinz Brandt
Crew
- Bryan Singer - Director
- Christopher McQuarrie - Screenplay
- Nathan Alexander - Screenplay
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