Stauffenberg (2004)

Directed by

Jo Baier

Genre

biographical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aristocratic German officer becomes disillusioned with the Nazi regime after learning about war crimes. He decides to join a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler using a bomb in a briefcase.

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What happens

Stauffenberg is a 2004 German–Austrian TV film 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 channel Das Erste (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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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