Stauffenberg (film)

Stauffenberg
Written by	Jo Baier
Directed by	Jo Baier
Starring	Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Hardy Krüger, Jr.
Music by	Enjott Schneider
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
Production
Cinematography	Gunnar Fuss
Editor	Carla Fabry
Running time	92 minutes
Original release
Network	Das Erste
Release	2004 (2004)

Not to be confused with Valkyrie (film), the 2008 film starring Tom Cruise.

Stauffenberg is a 2004 German–Austrian TV film by Das Erste (German TV ARD), about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The film was first broadcast on 25 February 2004 on German TV (ARD).

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg becomes an enemy of Hitler's policy, because Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow informs him about German war crimes behind the Russian front. On 20 July 1944 he goes with a time bomb in his briefcase to a conference room at Hitler's headquarter Wolfsschanze near Rastenburg in East Prussia. Four people were killed immediately, but Hitler survived. The film was awarded "best film" at the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Awards).

The film goes by the international English name of Operation Valkyrie.

Cast

• Sebastian Koch as Claus von Stauffenberg
• Remo Girone as Ludwig Beck
• Ulrich Tukur as Henning Von Tresckow
• David C. Bunners as Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim

External links

• Stauffenberg at IMDb
• German language film lexicon