Should you watch Valkyrie?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Valkyrie
Film · 2008
Wounded 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.
The sides of Valkyrie
- A plot to kill Hitler
- A wounded colonel with a briefcase bomb
- A coup run from Berlin's telephones
Valkyrie is good for you if…
- you like a ticking clock even when you know how history ends.
- you want to see the German officers who tried to kill Hitler in 1944.
- you like the politics of a coup, officers deciding whom to trust and who will hold Berlin.
Valkyrie is bad for you if…
- you need a surprise ending, and you already know this one.
- you want battles, not men on telephones in offices.
About: conscience · resistance · duty
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