"Operation Valkyrie" was the name of an official alarm plan during the Second World War. With the help of this plan, the conspirators around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg wanted to bring about the overthrow of Germany on July 20, 1944. The events are well known: Stauffenberg's assassination attempt failed, Adolf Hitler remained alive. In addition to the purely scenic reconstruction, this two-part, documentary-style film consists of interspersed interviews and reports with eyewitnesses and survivors who were directly involved. Everything that is available in the way of authentic testimony about July 20, 1944 is examined and documented with the highest degree of realism.

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Cast

Joachim Hansen

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Otto Ernst Remer

Joachim Engel-Denis

Adam von Trott zu Solz

Bert Fortell

Heinrich Kodré

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Erwin von Witzleben

Joachim Fest

Interviewer

Willi Rose

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

Norbert Gastell

Fritz Thiele