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Release date United States: Saturday, August 9, 2008

Director: Bryan Singer

Cast:

Tom Cruise as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg
Kenneth Branagh as Henning Von Tresckow
Bill Nighy
Patrick Wilson
Carice van Houten as Nina Von Stauffenberg
Stephen Fry
Tom Wilkinson
Eddie Izzard as Erich Fellgiebel

About:

Superstar Tom Cruise heads an international cast as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker. The "July 20 Plot" on Hitler's life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler's once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation's government... He must kill Hitler himself.

Genres:
Thriller - War

Producers: Gilbert Adler Tom Cruise

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie Nathan Alexander

Studio: United Artists