color, USA / Germany, 2008 , of Bryan Singer Duration: 120 min.
Genre: thriller war
Cast: Tom Cruise (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg), Kenneth Branagh (Major General Henning von Tresckow), Billy Nighy (General Friedrich Olbricth), Terence Stamp (Colonel General Ludwig Beck), Tom Wilkinson (General Friedrich Fromm), Carice Van Houten (Nina Schenk Graff von Stauffenberg), David Bamber (Adolf Hitler), Thomas Kretschmann (Major Otto Ernst Remer), Christian Berkel (Colonel Albrecth Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim), Eddie Izzard (General Erich Fellgiebel), Harvey Friedman (Dr. Joseph Goebbels), Matthias Freihof (Heinrich Himmler), Kenneth Cranham (Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel).
Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie, Nathan Alexander
Music: John Ottman
Distribution: MGM, United Artists
La storia che nessuno ha mai raccontato
Era il 20 Luglio del 1944, quando il complotto ordito da mesi fu finalmente messo in atto. Un'esplosione, durante un briefing militare nel rifugio segreto del Wolf's Lair, in Polonia. Adolf Hitler doveva morire in quella stanza, attorniato dai suoi generali, e porre così fine ad una guerra insensata, e alle atrocità che il Partito Nazista stava mettendo in atto da anni.
Claus von Stauffenberg, e alcuni altri importanti membri della Wehrmacht e dalla politica della Germania, portarono avanti il sogno di una nazione tedesca senza Hitler, di un nuovo ordine, that it was abolishing the follies of the Nazi hierarchy, which they did their part, before opening his eyes and wake up from this nightmare.
It 's a true story, very dramatically, which has tragic implications in itself, but marked an important step in the history of German resistance to Nazism, which shows that not all Germans were blinded by propaganda, by lies, dall'irregimentazione, from total control by the adoration, dall'aberrazione. A story that shows that humanity sometimes emerges in the most unexpected moments, in the most unlikely, even in subdued hearts from evil.
A story that, unfortunately, few people know, e che andava raccontata.
L'Operazione Valkyrie
Il film parte dalle premesse storiche e ne segue per filo e per segno l'andamento, in un modo molto fedele, puntellando la storia qua e là di finzioni narrative atte a reggere la trama. L'incipit è la formazione del cavaliere integgerrimo che porterà avanti la sua crociata, nonostante tutto. In mezzo alle sabbie dell'Africa, gli Africakorps stanno resistendo, anche se la guerra volge loro contro. Stauffenberg è lì, con i suoi dubbi, già da allora, che pensa, e si rende conto che Hitler non è solamente il nemico dell'Europa e del mondo, ma soprattutto the Germans.
A hard man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, because he's torn between Africakorps, and why is mutilated by the dedication to his country, but perhaps more than anything else, given the error in having the dedication to the Nazi Party.
The Mustang covering the sky, and the Allied bombing. Stauffenberg finds himself alone, buried in the sand, now forever marked by the madness that is war, which is greater than anything human, and that spares no one. His mutilation, the loss of the left eye, right hand and two fingers of his left hand, are real injuries, that the real Colonel has suffered, but in This story takes a different meaning. And 'the image of a regime that has deprived the Germans of their autonomy, subjugating the lives and thoughts, mutilation pride, wrenching humanity, depriving them of their free will.
Tom Cruise, despite the controversy about his being suited to the role or not, shows a Nazi officer cold, hard, as it should be Stauffenberg, because Africakorps, because a soldier of the Wehrmacht, but also because it marks for the war ever, and the awareness of this loss for a false ideal, rests on him like a boulder. Yet you never complain of what he lost, because he is a soldier, a man who seeks one purpose only think to finish it, without question, without letting anything could stop him. In this, the strict discipline that was imposed by a lifetime, it is perhaps useful purpose.
His attachment to family values \u200b\u200bis evident from the Germans as it is presented, how it is used to surprise the number of children. It will be your family to be its spur, the last thought in life, before losing that life.
Stauffenberg is part of a committee plotting behind the scenes to change the destiny of Germany. Together with a large number of the conspirators, he now destroyed the soul e nel corpo, si dimostrerà l'uomo più deciso tra tutti nel voler porre fine ad una tragedia che ormai sta dilaniando il suo popolo e il suo paese, nonchè mietendo vittime in tutto il mondo. Lui è il più grande nemico di Hitler e del suo sogno folle, ma ancora questi non lo sa.
La fredda, cieca determinazione dello Stauffenberg mostrato da Cruise, doveva essere molto vicina a quella del personaggio che interpreta, perchè fu ordito un complotto quasi perfetto, dove tutto aveva un suo scopo, atto alla completa distruzione dello status quo, per far rinascere una nuova Germania, guarita dal pericoloso virus dell'antisemitismo, della follia xenofoba, fuori dalle nebbie di improbabili motivazioni razziali and historical carrying on a war that was just a mere instrument of conquest and pure violence.
Throughout history, Stauffenberg proved to be immovable pivot around which every event will run willy-nilly. He will design an "aftermath" to the death of Hitler, using the same defense plan designed by the staff in the event of civil unrest or riots: Operation Valkyrie.
This mechanism infallible, commenced operations to confirm the state of emergency and ensure the strategic places of Berlin, and thus the strength of the chain of command, through the Army Reserves, which would have taken control of rapidly each district and command center is vital to maintaining public order. Through the alteration of some of the key steps of the Valkyrie, Stauffenberg was so successful in turning against their own Nazi last resort, their shield against a threat of a plot such as that of Colonel. Ironically, Operation Valkyrie would turn against them, cutting off the serpent's head Nazi.
An interim government, formed by the committee decision of the conspirators, would replace the highest offices of state, and as the first instance, was executive Germany's surrender to Allied forces.
A government that never came to power, because, as la storia ci racconta, il disperato tentativo dei congiurati e di Stauffenberg, di cambiare il destino della loro patria, fallì e fu soffocato nel sangue.
Lottare contro la marea
Fin dall'inizio, con le urla del giuramento nazista, il film getta gli astanti nel vortice nero dell'esaltazione di massa che a quell'epoca il popolo tedesco stava sperimentando. L'angoscia che pervade tutta la pellicola, i silenzi di Cruise i suoi sguardi gelidi e corrucciati, sono tutti protesi ad enfatizzare il senso di ineluttabilità che la storia ha in sè come inevitabile conseguenza del fatto che essa è ben nota, e quindi è inevitabile comparison with the historical truth.
Though rarely disseminated in a manner worthy, the story of the July 20 plot is unknown, and everyone knows for a fact that Hitler saw the end of that year, as opposed to what they wanted the plotters. So you play on this, the sense of identification that is created between the viewer and the protagonist, because they know, and the profound meaning of this link shows it as one man, a dead man walking, maybe a hero, Knight scored from a fate which pursues its mission, despite already knows that it will take his life, and perhaps much more.
The historical accuracy is remarkable compared to other films based on major events, whose pomposity and have overwhelmed the sense of the events narrated. The gesture is noble and important, is to be commended: to tell this important part of the Second World War is an act that gives due weight to the historical facts, but also above all a great moral gesture. Shows a different German people, who manages to wriggle through the pain, from the grip of propaganda, and is willing to sacrifice himself for the love of his country, but this time the right side. So not for fanaticism, but for love.
Stauffenberg's words when he says that to save his country will betray her, are a clear example of how a life of service to certain ideals, have nevertheless left a deep scar within, an unresolved conflict, perhaps, but that does not stop even know which road leads to darkness, and as the light.
Bryan Singer safely guides the plot, and lingers on the figure of Stauffenberg, a man who is alone, closed in upon itself, conscious of the dead end it is pursuing. They are well see the other characters, all inextricably wrapped up in this web fatal, each with its capacity to cope with their fate, with its heavy load of responsibility in the eyes.
Good interpretations of Hitler and his entourage, with particular attention to Goebbels, treacherous and spectral, a container for freezing a delusional madness. Even if the Fuhrer is still a particularly awkward to perform, because they are too famous, too heavy in the pages of history books, the role is good joust, no abuse of appearances on screen, no events due to bloated cliché. Hitler is here indeed a man bent over, grim, locked in a silence completely opposed to the screaming scenes from the pulpit. It 's a curious but not more truthful representation of the character.
Gliss totally on the controversy concerning the making of the film, since they are irrelevant to the way history is represented here. The accuracy of the facts, and the drama of the narrative, deserves respect, as well as the desire to tell a fact that is of great importance in German history, and that shows how bad at times, are never entirely bad , but only momentarily darkened. The voice of reason can emerge at any time, you only need the mind and heart open.
So they decided they've had enough, which is too much you move or change a cruel fate, against forces that are known to be much more powerful than you can stand up against. While Operation Valkyrie is in place, and dismayed to witness a power inside of Berlin, the pages history at school we were never told, we know that it is useless, that the blind insistence Stauffenberg in carrying out his plan, despite the attempt has failed, is the latest effort of a man whose will to change Things have gone far beyond the capabilities of its human greatness could have.
Faced with the effort of these men, these great men who fought against the tide immense, infinite, we can not but observe a minute's silence, remembered not only for what they have already done, but also for what they failed to do, and that history has then to their completed, nine months later, with the capture of Berlin and the suicide of Hitler.
just wait to see their dream realized, but we honor them just because, unlike everyone else, they did not wait at all.
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