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Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise. The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take ...
- $75–90 million
- December 25, 2008 (United States)
- John Ottman
- Bryan Singer, Gilbert Adler, Christopher McQuarrie
Dec 22, 2022 · Tom Cruise's historical drama Valkyrie tells the true story of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and the movie adheres closely to reality. The assassination plot was stranger than fiction.
- Zachary Moser
During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) is severely wounded during an RAF air raid in Tunisia, losing a hand and an 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 Führer's personal airplane.
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Jul 30, 2019 · Roughly 200 German resisters participated in “Operation Valkyrie,” the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. To this day, historians debate what...
- Jesse Greenspan
Dec 25, 2008 · Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) serves Germany with loyalty and pride but fears that Hitler will destroy his country if allowed to run unchecked. With time running out for Germany and...
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- Bryan Singer
- PG-13
- Tom Cruise
Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and his assassination plot targeting Adolph Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. 4,621 IMDb 7.1 2h 2008. X-Ray PG-13.
Dec 25, 2008 · Led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise), the resistance conceives of Operation Valkyrie, which, after the assassination of Hitler, would incapacitate the German government and set up a...