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Director  Lawrence Schiller
Initial DVD release  January 6, 2009
Duration  
Country  United States
6.2/10 IMDb


Genre  Drama, History, War
Music director  Laurence Rosenthal
Writer  Steven Elkins
Language  English
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Release date  January 30, 1990
Cast  Brad Davis (Count Claus von Stauffenberg), Madolyn Smith Osborne, Ian Richardson, Kenneth Colley, Michael Byrne
Similar movies  Valkyrie (2008)

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The Plot to Kill Hitler is a 1990 television film based on the July 20 plot by German High Command to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944. Brad Davis stars as Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who plants a bomb in the conference room of the Führer's headquarters in East Prussia.

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Plot summary

Led by Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, several German High Command officers plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government, with the ultimate intention of surrendering their country to the Allies. Stauffenberg manages to plant a bomb, hidden in his briefcase, in Hitler's battlefield headquarters. By sheer luck, Heinz Brandt unwittingly moves the briefcase slightly, and Hitler survives the subsequent blast. In the final hours of July 20, 1944, Stauffenberg, Lieutenant Werner von Haeften, General Friedrich Olbricht, Ludwig Beck, and Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim are arrested and tried. Beck commits suicide, and they rest are taken to be executed. Stauffenberg declares "Long live the sacred Germany!" before being killed, and the others also get killed beside him within seconds.

Production

The movie was filmed in the United States and Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

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