The Plot to Kill Hitler

The Plot to Kill Hitler
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Directed by	Lawrence Schiller
Produced by	Alfred R. Kelman Bernard Sofronski
Written by	Steven Elkins
Starring	Brad Davis Ian Richardson Michael Byrne Rupert Graves Helmut Griem
Music by	Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography	Freddie Francis
Edited by	Bernard Gribble
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	January 30, 1990 (1990-01-30)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

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 the rest are taken to be executed. Stauffenberg declares "Long live the sacred Germany!" before being killed, and the others are also killed beside him within seconds.

Cast

Production

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

External links

• The Plot to kill Hitler on IMDb