Valkyrie 2009
English Feb 20, 2009 (USA)
Story
Valkyrie opens with a Colonel Stauffenberg in Africa, penning in a journal his thoughts about World War II, and how he feels Hitler is destroying Germany. Stauffenberg states he took an oath to swear allegiance to Hitler, but feels he owes more to Germany. Shortly thereafter, the camp in Africa is attacked and Stauffenberg is badly injured, losing one of his eyes, his right hand, and two fingers from his left hand.
The next scene shows Hitler visiting a base camp in Germany, and a nervous General Trescow onlooking. As Hitler prepares to depart, Trescow and an associate hide a bomb in a wine case and give to a man on Hitler's plane, but it fails to detonate in flight, and Trescow must return to headquarters to retrieve it. Once he arrives, he meets up with who is revealed as a fellow conspirator, a General Olbricht. Trescow safely retrieves the wine case and he and Olbrict discuss a member of their secret committee who was recently arrested. Trescow recommends Olbricht contact Colonel Stauffenberg as a replacement, which Olbricht does, and bring Stauffenberg to one of the clandestine meetings.
In the meeting, Stauffenberg meets three of the most important figures in the resistance. A Dr. Goerdeler, who will become Chancellor of Germany should the plot succeed, a General Beck, who will lead the Armed Forces, and a man named Witzleben. After tempers flare, Stauffenberg agrees to help. At a later meeting, Stauffenberg suggests they utilize Operation Valkyrie, which is a plan that uses the Reserve Army to keep amongst the Germany country should anything disrupt communications from Hitler, or should Hitler be killed. Stauffenberg rewrites the order to exclude the SS from taking control, which would leave the head of the Reserve Army, General Fromm, in charge of Germany. Reaching out to General Fromm, Stauffenberg and Olbricht are surprised at his rejection, but Fromm keeps quiet, choosing to neither support the dissenters nor reports them to the authorities. Meanwhile, General Trescow is sent to the front lines. Stauffenberg is promoted to head of the plan, and he, along with his assistant Lieutenant Haeften, take the order to the Berghof to be signed off by Hitler himself. Hitler, with his inner circle present, praises Stauffenberg's loss of appendages as the attitude necessary for his military, and states Stauffenberg is the ideal German. He then signs off on the bill, saying he's sure the changes are adequate.
Cast & Crew
Tom Cruise
Col. Claus von Stau..
Kenneth Branagh
Henning von Trescko..
Bill Nighy
Friedrich Olbricht
Tom Wikinson
Friedrich Fromm
Carice van Houten
Nina Von Stauffenbe..
Thomas Kretschmann
Otto Ernst Remer
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Reviews for Valkyrie
History records there were 15 assassination attempts on Hitler, and all of them were futile. For, the world's most controversial head of state actually committed suicide, nine mon..
full reviewThere are no discernibly nasty Nazis in Valkyrie, though Hitler and Goebbels skulk about in a few scenes, shooting dark, ominous looks at the heroic German army officer played by ..
full reviewHow do you make a thriller, the climax of which is obvious? How do you make a movie based on that one day which could have changed the history of the world, and consequently the p..
full reviewIn director Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, Tom Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg, a veteran colonel of the German campaign in North Africa, who spearheads a group of high-ranking Germ..
full reviewDuring his tenure as the supreme commander of the Nazi forces, at least fifteen attempts were made on Adolf Hitler's life. As any person even casually acquainted with history know..
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