Valkyrie

2008 PG-13 2h 1m

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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

Director Bryan Singer

Writers

Christopher McQuarrie Nathan Alexander

Stars

Tom Cruise Kenneth Branagh Bill Nighy

Tom Cruise

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg

Kenneth Cranham

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler

Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim

General - Desert Sequence

Chris Larkin

Sergeant Helm

Matthew Burton

Lieutenant-General Adolf Heusinger

Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg

Ernst-John Von Freyend

Matthias Schweighöfer

SS-Soldat im Erschießungskommando

Andy Gätjen

SS-Soldat

Philipp von Schulthess

SS-Adjutant von Henning von Tresckow

Karl Alexander Seidel

Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Justus Kammerer

Heimeran Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Frank Christian Marx

Thomas Arnold

Florian Panzner

Leutnant Hans Wilhelm Hagen

Julian Morris

Young Lieutenant - Desert

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Geronimo1967 18 May 2025

6/10

Tom Cruise sports an eye-patch as he takes on the role of Nazi war hero Claus von Stauffenberg. Badly injured he returns to Germany where he is quickly appointed to staff rank with regular access to an appreciative Führer (David Bamber). His arrival co-insides with the increasingly stark realisation from many politicians and officers alike that their hopes of winning the war were dwindling and tha...

Wuchak 29 Jun 2018

7/10

Not all Germans supported that madman RELEASED IN 2008 and directed by Bryan Singer, "Valkyrie" is a World War II crime thriller based on the true story of the last German plot to assassinate Hitler in the Summer of 1944, although it wasn't a crime, of course, but rather an act of heroism. Tom Cruise resembles the protagonist, Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg, but he lacks his height. Despite ...