A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Acting
Wolfgang Preiss carries doomed resolve in every glance.
Direction
Harnack's documentary austerity — no hero music, just ticking clocks.
Production
Shot in actual locations weeks after the real conspirators' trials.
Director
Falk Harnack
Wolfgang Preiss
Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Annemarie Düringer
Hildegard Klee
Robert Freitag
Hauptmann Lindner
Fritz Tillmann
General Henning von Tresckow
Werner Hinz
Generaloberst Ludwig Beck
Paul Esser
Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben
Wolfgang Büttner
General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Generalleutnant Erich Hoepner
Herbert Wilk
Oberst Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Paul Bildt
Oberbürgermeister a.D. Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Maximilian Schell
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Feldmarschall, Oberbefehlshaber einer Heeresgruppe
Siegfried Schürenberg
Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
Werner Peters
Oberstleutnant H.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in West Germany while many former Nazis still held government positions, it sparked debates about who got to claim 'resistance' as moral cover.
Director Falk Harnack's own brother Arvid was executed by the Nazis as a Red Orchestra spy — this is personal archaeology disguised as history.
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