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Valkyrie (2008)

PG-1312/25/2008Drama, Thriller, War2h 1m

Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.

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.

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    Tom Cruise

    Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

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    Kenneth Branagh

    Henning von Tresckow

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    Bill Nighy

    Friedrich Olbricht

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    Terence Stamp

    Ludwig Beck

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    Tom Wilkinson

    Friedrich Fromm

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    Carice van Houten

    Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg

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    Kenneth Cranham

    Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

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    Thomas Kretschmann

    Otto Ernst Remer

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    Eddie Izzard

    Erich Fellgiebel

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 Co...