Cast:
Tom
Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Patrick Wilson, Stephen Fry,
Tom
Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard, Halina Reijn, Kevin
McNally,
Christian Berkel, Terence Stamp
Synopsis
In a
country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is
being
watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a
group of men
hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Tom
Cruise
stars in the suspense film, Valkyrie, based on the
true story of Colonel
Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to
eliminate
one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Director Bryan
Singer
re-teams with
Academy Award®-winning Usual Suspects
screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie to bring to life the story of the
men who
led the operation to assassinate Hitler. The film also stars an
acclaimed cast
including Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van
Houten, Thomas
Kretschmann, Eddie Izzard, Christian Berkel and Terence Stamp.
A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer
who
serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to
stop
Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is
running
out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German
resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler’s own
emergency plan –
known as Operation Valkyrie – these men plot to assassinate
the dictator and overthrow
his Nazi government from the inside.
With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of
millions
and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von
Stauffenberg
is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must
kill
Hitler himself.