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2009

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Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII. Read more

Starring	Tom Cruise, Carice van Houten, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson
Director	Bryan Singer
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller

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Valkyrie

Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Starring	Tom Cruise, Carice van Houten, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Eddie Izzard, Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Stephen Fry, Thomas Kretschmann
Director	Bryan Singer
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 1 min
Certificate
Collections	100 Most Wanted, UK top 50 weekly chart
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller
Language	DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English, English Audio Description
Released	DVD: 08 Jun 2009 Blu-ray: 08 Jun 2009 Production year: 2009
Format	DVD

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superb......................................

This dvd is superb. Valkyrie is a historical thriller film starring Tom Cruise. The film is based on the 20th July plot of German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Tom Cruise portrays the leader of the plot, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

The film also stars: Kenneth Branagh as Major General Henning von Tresckow, Christian Berkel as Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Bill Nighy as General Friedrich Olbricht,

David Schofield as Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, Terrence Stamp as Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Kevin McNally as Carl Goerdeler, Carice van Houten as von Stauffenberg's wife, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, David Bamber as Adolf Hitler,

Eddie Izzard as Erich Fellgiebel, Tom Wilkinson as Friedrich Fromm, Thomas Kretschmann as Otto Ernst Remer, Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg as Hermann Göring, Anton Algrang as Albert Speer and Matthias Freihof as Heinrich Himmler.

During World War II, German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) is severely wounded in Africa and returns home to Nazi Germany.

Stauffenberg helps conceive Operation Valkyrie, a plan approved by Adolf Hitler which, in order to manage turmoil within Germany, would implement a shadow government in the event of the Nazi Führer's death.

The Colonel eventually joins the German Resistance and becomes part of the July 20 plot, a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and execute Valkyrie in order to take control of the country and make peace with the Allies.

Stauffenberg finds himself taking on not only the responsibility of leading the coup, but also the task to assassinate Hitler himself.

Well worth watching.
- - williamsgwynfa
  - Posted 04 Oct 2008 16:19
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rather dull

...but didn't they all have nice uniforms ?

A pretty un-exciting movie seeing as how every man and his dog seems to know this story of the botched attempt on Hitlers life.All the actors seemed to look like ' actors ' and you never got any sense of drama or terror or panic or fear. One day a good version of this story will be made.
- - Martin77 from PLYMOUTH
  - Posted 13 Jun 2009 10:32
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Pitt aides blast German translation of Valkyrie 'comments'
- 23 Aug 2009
Brad Pitt's comments about Tom Cruise's World War II movie Valkyrie appear to have been lost in translation - his publicists insist the actor didn't take aim at his Interview With A Vampire co-star in a recent German interview. Talking about his new film Inglourious Basterds in Stern magazine, Pitt reportedly told a journalist that Cruise's Valkyrie was "a ridiculous movie". But Pitt's people insist their client was misquoted. A spokesman for the star says, "Brad has never seen Valkyrie so... Read more
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