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Synopsis: In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe.
Director(s): Bryan Singer
Production: MGM
  2 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
PG-13
Year:
2008
121 min
$82,989,109
Website
1,751 Views


I will do no such thing until I speak to General Fromm.

You'll follow your orders or you are arrested.

This is treason.

I will take no part.

The Fhrer is not dead.

Listen to me, you are all making a terrible mistake.

The Fhrer is not dead.

Please try my wife again.

I can't get through to General . Run down to his office and get him here.

Yes, this is Stauffenberg, I was speaking wih the General about five minutes ago. He told me he'd return my call.

I trust everything in your district is under control.

And the General knows I'm waiting?

I'm ordering you to put him on the phone immediately.

.. Alreday gave their oath to a liar, Hans ...

Hans, listen to me.

This operation has been terminated.

Today an attempt was made on the Fhrer's life.

The Fhrer himself suffered no major injuries beyond light burns and bruises ...

He resumed his work immediately.

Those seriously wounded include General Schmundt, Colonel Brandt ...

Send the following orders to all reserve army commanders.

"Broadcast incorrect, Fhrer is dead."

Operation Valkyrie still in effect.

I saw the blast.

I saw the blast.

Today an attempt was made on the Fhrer's life.

The Fhrer himself suffered no major injuries beyond light burns and bruises ...

- My family?

- Our lines have been cut.

I'm sorry.

Go.

It's alright. Go.

General, sir.

We have to get you out of here.

- Stop.

- Stand down.

- I said stop.

- I said stand down.

Hold your fire.

Colonel Stauffenberg.

By orders of the Fhrer, you are under arrest.

If you have any last messages to your wives and children,

I will hear them now.

Very well, a court martial convened by me ...

in the Fhrer's absence,

will pronounce sentence.

Beck, you are under arrest.

Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim, General Olbricht, Lieutenant Haeften ...

And the Colonel, whose name I will not mention,

are condemned to death.

General, my orders are to take these men alive.

Noted, Major.

I'd like a pistol, please.

For personal reasons.

- Get on with it.

- With all respect, sir.

That will be all, Major.

Killing us won't hide your involvement.

My involvement? I don't know what you're talking about?

- You knew and did nothing.

- You're as guilty as any of us.

-Spare me Lieutenant.

- No-one will be spared.

I'm thinking of earlier times.

This is an outrage.

It has never before been perpetrated here.

A Fieldmarshal and a General declare that they could do things better than he ...

Who is the Fher of us all.

You'll confess to having said this?

My fellow Germans.

I speak to you tonight for two reasons.

First, so that you can hear my voice

and know that I am unhurt.

Second, so that you can know the details of a crime ...

without parallel in German history.

A small clique of ambitious, dishonorable officers had conspired to eliminate me.

Except for a few bruises and burns ...

I was completely untouched.

I see in this the hand of Providence ...

Directing me to complete my work.

Look them in the eye.

They'll remember you.

For we have to show the world that not all of us were like him.

Fire.

People know we put our principles above personal gains.

translation by .::dutch::.

Aim.

Safe. Stand.

You may hand us over to the executioner,

but in three months time...

The disgusted and tired people will bring you to book.

- And drag you alive through the dirt in the streets.

- Take him away.

Men, ready.

Aim.

- Long live sacred Germany!

- Fire.

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Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie (1968) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he co-wrote the screenplay of Singer's Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, co-wrote and produced Valkyrie and co-wrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow. more…

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