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It Happened on July 20th

Discussion in 'WWII Films & TV' started by Kai-Petri, Apr 3, 2005.

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    It Happened on July 20th (Es geschah am 20. Juli - Aufstand gegen Adolf Hitler)(1955)

    On 20th July 1944, Colonel Baron Schenk von Stauffenberg made an attempt to kill Hitler using a bomb at his "Fuehrer headquarters" in eastern Prussia.

    G.W. Pabst has reconstructed events up to the colonel's court martial and execution chronologically and in a meticulous way, demonstrating an honest effort to be precise regarding historical facts. With considerable detail, and employing an excellent cast, he relates what really happened on 20th July ...

    http://www.german-cinema.de/archive/film_view.php?film_id=367

    Anyone seen the movie. Opinion?
     

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