The movie Valkyrie is the story of one such assasination attempt on Hitler's life. The story revolves around a patriotic German army officer Colonel Von Stauffenberg, who firmly believes that only Hitler's death will bring about an end to the war and prevent Germany from being reduced to ashes. He loses an eye, his right hand and two fingers of his left hand in the war and is seen as an ideal German Army Officer by Hitler.
Tom Cruise plays Stauffenberg very convincingly and is well supported by David Bamber (Adolf Hitler), Bill Nighy (General Fredrich Olbricht), Tom Wilkinson (General Fromm) and others. The recreation of the true incidents that took place during July 1944 is very convincing. Bryan Singer has extracted the best out of each and every member of the Valkyrie's cast.
The story starts with Stauffenberg arguing with his superior officer about the importance of taking his men home safe. Few minutes later his battalion is attacked by the allied airforce during which Stauffenberg is grievously injured. He returns to Berlin and meets with other disgruntled officers who believe that if Hitler would lead to Germany to destruction and mass murders in Europe. The rest of the movie details the plot to kill the Fuehrer and how it is executed. What happens after that and how the entire team of conspirators along with Stauffenberg are arrested and shot dead.
This movie is one of the many attempts by the Hollywood directors to clean the image of Germany and its people. The film spiritedly attempts to show that only a small section of the German people was behind Hitler in his mindless carnage of Jews and that there was a large majority of Germans who did not approve of his ways.
An effort that has not gone in vain, I'd say.
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