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Valkyrie was intended to be a high-profile film that would jump-start United Artists, the host studio partly owned by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. [3]
Valkyrie: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson. A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
- (261K)
- Drama, History, Thriller
- Bryan Singer
- 2008-12-25
Nathan Alexander. Screenplay. 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.
The principal character of the movie, Claus von Stauffenberg is a decorated war hero born into the great Stauffenberg family of Prussian nobility. Stauffenberg served in the German Army for the invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union before being transferred to the 10th Panzer Division to fight in the North African campaign.
Dec 25, 2008 · 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.
Valkyrie is a 2008 historical drama film about the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler by a dedicated cabal of German military officers, as well as some non-military personnel.
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Dec 22, 2008 · “Valkyrie” is a meticulous thriller based on a large-scale conspiracy within the German army to assassinate Hitler, leading to a failed bombing attempt on July 20, 1944. At the center of the plot was Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, played here by Tom Cruise as the moving force behind the attempted coup, which led to 700 arrests and 200 ...
