Valkyrie (film)

Valkyrie is a 2008 AmericanGerman historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts theJuly plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country. Valkyrie was directed by Bryan Singer for the American studio United Artists, and the film stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters. The cast included Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp and Tom Wilkinson.

During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg Cruise is severely wounded during an RAF air raid in Tunisia, losing his right hand, the ring and little finger on his left hand, and his left eye, and is evacuated home to Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, Major General Henning von Tresckow Branagh attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler by smuggling a bomb aboard the Fhrers personal airplane. The bomb, however, is a dud and fails to detonate, and Tresckow flies to Berlin in order to safely retrieve it. After learning that the Gestapo has arrested Major General Hans Oster, he orders General Olbricht Nighy to find a replacement. After recruiting Stauffenberg into the German Resistance, Olbricht presents Stauffenberg at a meeting of the secret committee which has coordinated previous attempts on Hitlers life. The members include General Ludwig Beck Stamp, Dr. Carl Goerdeler McNally, and Erwin von Witzleben Schofield. Stauffenberg is stunned to learn that no plans exist on the subject of what is to be done after Hitlers assassination.During a bombing raid on Berlin, he gets the idea of using Operation Valkyrie, which involves the deployment of the Reserve Army to maintain order in the event of a national emergency. The plotters carefully redraft the plans orders so that they can dismantle the Nazi rgime after assassinating Hitler. Realizing that only General Friedrich Fromm Wilkinson, the head of the Reserve Army, can initiate Valkyrie, they offer him a position as head of the Wehrmacht in a postNazi Germany and request his support, but Fromm declines to be directly involved, stating he will not side with them so long as Hitler is alive. With the rewritten Operation Valkyrie orders needing to be signed by Hitler Bamber, Stauffenberg visits the Fhrer at his Berghof estate in Bavaria. Fromms influence allows Stauffenberg to bring the copy directly before Hitler, and in the presence of Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Gring, Wilhelm Keitel and Albert Speer, his

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