It Happened on July 20th
1955 · 1h 15m · N/A
Drama, History, War
Directed by
George Wilhelm Papst
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It Happened on July 20th
Overview
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
Director and cast
- George Wilhelm Papst Director
- Bernhard Wicki as Oberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Generaloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck
- Carl Wery as Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
- Erik Frey as General Friedrich Olbricht
- Albert Hehn as Major Otto Ernst Remer
- Til Kiwe as Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften
- Kurt Meisel as SS - Gruppenführer
- Jochen Hauer as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- Siegfried Lowitz as Malte Jaeger
- Hans Baur Cast
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