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Valkyrie is a 2008 war, drama, and biographical film directed by Bryan Singer. The screenplay was written by Christopher McQuarrie, who also served as a producer alongside Singer and Gilbert Adler. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, and Tom Wilkinson. John Ottman composed the music and edited the film, while Newton Thomas Sigel was the director of photography. Production was handled by United Artists, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Bad Hat Harry Productions, and Achte Babelsberg Film.
The narrative is set in Berlin and the Bendlerblock, focusing on World War II, Adolf Hitler, and Operation Valkyrie. The film is a co-production from Germany and the United States, with dialogue in English and German. It has a runtime of 121 minutes and was rated PG-13. Distribution was managed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century Studios, and Netflix.
Financially, the film had a budget of 75,000,000 and a capital cost of 80,000,000, generating box office revenue of 200,276,784. It received a Metascore of 56 and an IMDb rating of 7.1 based on 275,250 votes. The film has accumulated 3 wins and 11 nominations.
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7.0Wounded 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.
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
- Kenneth Branagh as Henning von Tresckow
- Bill Nighy as Friedrich Olbricht
- Terence Stamp as Ludwig Beck
- Tom Wilkinson as Friedrich Fromm
- Carice van Houten as Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Themes
- friendship
- suicide
- plan
- berlin, germany
- husband wife relationship
- assassination
- nazi
- bomb
- resistance
- military officer
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
272,480 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62%
Metacritic
56/100
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 wins & 11 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Bryan Singer
- Written by
- Nathan Alexander Christopher McQuarrie
- Produced by
- Bryan Singer Gilbert Adler Christopher McQuarrie
- Starring
- Tom Cruise Kenneth Branagh Bill Nighy Tom Wilkinson Carice van Houten Thomas Kretschmann Terence Stamp
- Cinematography
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Edited by
- John Ottman
- Music by
- John Ottman
- Production companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures United Artists Bad Hat Harry Productions
- Distributed by
- MGM Distribution Co. (United States), 20th Century Fox (Germany)
- Release date
- December 25, 2008 ( 2008-12-25 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 121 minutes
- Countries
- United States Germany
- Languages
- English German
- Budget
- $75–90 million
- Box office
- $201.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Valkyrie (German: Walküre, as featured in the opening sequence) is a 2008 historical thriller film directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise. The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country. The film was released by American studio United Artists and stars Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters. The supporting cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp, and Tom Wilkinson.
Cruise's casting caused controversy among German politicians and members of the von Stauffenberg family due to the actor's practice of Scientology, which is viewed with suspicion in Germany. Because of this, the filmmakers initially had difficulty setting up filming locations in Germany, but they were later given access to locations such as Berlin's historic Bendlerblock. German newspapers and filmmakers supported the film and its intention to spread global awareness of von Stauffenberg's plot.
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