Valkyrie (2008)

Director: Bryan Singer

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie (written by) and
Nathan Alexander (written by)

Tom Cruise	...	Col. Claus von Stauffenberg
Manfred-Anton Algrang	...	Albert Speer
David Bamber	...	Adolf Hitler
Matthias Freihof	...	Heinrich Himmler
Stephen Fry
Andy Gatjen	...	Angry SS Officer
Christian Oliver	...	Sgt. Adams
Christopher Karl Hemeyer	...	Major Bunker
Carice van Houten	...	Nina Von Stauffenberg
Eddie Izzard	...	Erich Fellgiebel
Justus Kammerer	...	Heimeran
Thomas Kretschmann	...	Otto Ernst Remer
Bill Nighy	...	Friedrich Olbricht
Florian Panzner	...	Hans Wilhelm Hagen
Halina Reijn	...	Fraulein Van Oven

At the height of WW2, a group of high-ranking German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The operation was codenamed "Valkyrie", for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators of the inner circle were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced to death soon after.

Kenneth Branagh as General Henning von Tresckow. From a Prussian noble family, he was born in 1901 and was one of the youngest soldiers of the First World War, earning the Iron Cross (1st Class) at the Second Battle of the Marne. “Hitler is not only the arch-enemy of Germany, but the arch-enemy of the world.”


Bill Nighy as Gen. Friedrich Olbricht, a Saxon and son of a mathematician. Another veteran of the First World War, Olbricht was an early opponent of National Socialism, being wary of the movement from their unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, ten years before Hitler came to power. Germany plays herself in the film, though there are also a few scenes shot in Bohemia.
Terence Stamp as Gen. Ludwig Beck. Beck was originally a German expansionist, hoping to restore his native land to her previous military might. Yet he had become increasingly aware of Hitler’s madness so that by the time of the Czech crisis of 1938 he had primed an army plot to overthrow Hitler.

From: IMDb; Norumbega