Movie: "Valkyrie"

Release Date: Dec 2008 Genres: History / Thriller / War Awards: 8 nominations Runtime: 121 min Cast: Tom Cruise (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg), Kenneth Branagh (Major-General Henning von Tresckow), Bill Nighy (General Friedrich Olbricht) Tom Wilkinson (General Friedrich Fromm) Carice van Houten (Nina von Stauffenberg) Thomas Kretschmann (Major Otto Ernst Remer) Terence Stamp (Ludwig Beck) Eddie Izzard (General Erich Fellgiebel) Kevin McNally (Dr. Carl Goerdeler) Christian Berkel (Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim) Andy Gatjen (Angry SS Officer) Jamie Parker (Lieutenant Werner von Haeften) David Bamber (Adolf Hitler) Tom Hollander (Colonel Heinz Brandt) David Schofield (Erwin von Witzleben)

Storyline

In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe.