Jackboot Mutiny (German: Es geschah am 20. Juli, literally It Happened on 20 July) is a 1955 West German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst about the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.[1] It features Bernhard Wicki as Stauffenberg.
Jackboot Mutiny | |
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Directed by | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Written by | Hans W. Hagen Gustav Machatý Jochen Wilke Werner P. Zibaso |
Produced by | Jochen Genzow Franz Seitz |
Starring | Bernhard Wicki |
Cinematography | Kurt Hasse |
Edited by | Herbert Taschner |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Cast
edit- Bernhard Wicki as Oberst Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Generaloberst a.D. Ludwig Beck
- Carl Wery as Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
- Kurt Meisel as SS Obergruppenführer
- Erik Frey as General Friedrich Olbricht
- Albert Hehn as Major Otto Ernst Remer
- Til Kiwe as Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften
- Jochen Hauer as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- Annemarie Sauerwein as Frau Olbricht
- Jaspar von Oertzen as Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
- Willy Krause as Joseph Goebbels
- Lina Carstens as Frau des Küsters
- Gernot Duda as Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben
- Peter Lühr as 1. General
See also
edit- The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955) German feature film
References
edit- ^ Hal Erickson (2016). "Es Geschah Am 20. Juli (1955)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
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