Valkyrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Carice van Houten, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin McNally, David Bamber, David Schofield, Halina Reijn, Werner Daehn, Jamie Parker, Christian BerkelDirector: Bryan Singer
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie,
Nathan Alexander
Producers: Gilbert Adler,
Christopher McQuarrie, Bryan Singer
Co-Producers: Nathan Alexander,
Henning Molfenter, Jeffrey Wetzel, Charlie Woebcken
Executive Producers: Tom Cruise, Ken Kamins, Chris Lee, Paula Wagner
Art Direction: Cornelia Ott, John Warnke
Casting: Roger Mussenden
Costume Design: Joanna Johnston
D.O.P.: Newton Thomas Sigel
Editor: John Ottman
Make-Up: Mareike Maya Mietke
Music: John Ottman
Production Design: Lilly Kilvert, Patrick Lumb
Set Decoration: Bernhard Henrich
Tom Cruise heads an international cast as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker. The "July 20 Plot" on Hitler's life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler's once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation's government... He must kill Hitler himself.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic
Production Budget: $80 million
Production Companies: United Artists,
Achte Babelsberg Film, Bad Hat Harry Productions
Production Schedule: 18th July 2007 - October 2007
Web Sites: Official Site - The IMDb
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic
Production Budget: $80 million
Production Companies: United Artists,
Achte Babelsberg Film, Bad Hat Harry Productions
Production Schedule: 18th July 2007 - October 2007
Web Sites: Official Site - The IMDb
A key scene in the Tom Cruise World War II thriller "Valkyrie" will have to be re-shot after footage was damaged in processing. "Valkyrie" director Bryan Singer...
Eleven people have been injured, one of them seriously, on the Berlin set of Tom Cruise's new movie "Valkyrie". The group were hit by a truck on a curve...
- Tobias Moretti was in talks for playing Adolf Hitler but had to decline due to schedule conflicts.
- The initially crew was not allowed to film on Bendlerblock due to "the dignity of this place". Eventually, the Ministry of Defence would allow filming as long as the dignity of the place was not tarnished. On the evening of the takes, the entire crew observed a moment of silence in commemorance of Stauffenberg.
- Initial rumors that the project was banned from filming in Germany due to Tom Cruise's religious belief turned out not to be true.
- Some scenes had to be re-shot when the original film was destroyed after being treated with the wrong chemical during development.
- Production has also involved World War II planes with swastikas painted on the sides, practicing in the airspace above Brandenburg.
- A replica set of Hitler's Eastern front headquarters Wolf's Lair was constructed 60 kilometers south of Berlin, though the headquarters' actual location was in modern-day Poland
- Nazi symbols, the display of which is usually illegal in Germany, were also used at several locations, and while the filmmakers gave forewarnings to local residents, a passerby witnessing the use of swastikas during filming in Berlin filed an official complaint with the city.
- In October 2007, Kenneth Branagh said that the German official who initially incited the complaints about Cruise and the filming contacted the production one week into shooting to apologize, after reading the script and realizing he had misinterpreted the film's plot.
- Eleven film extras playing Wehrmacht soldiers were injured on set in Berlin when they fell out of a moving lorry. One of the actors received a serious back injury while others had bruises, cuts and head injuries. An insurance company investigation concluded that the side panel had been closed improperly by one of the extras, resulting in it opening while the truck was in motion.
- The initially crew was not allowed to film on Bendlerblock due to "the dignity of this place". Eventually, the Ministry of Defence would allow filming as long as the dignity of the place was not tarnished. On the evening of the takes, the entire crew observed a moment of silence in commemorance of Stauffenberg.
- Initial rumors that the project was banned from filming in Germany due to Tom Cruise's religious belief turned out not to be true.
- Some scenes had to be re-shot when the original film was destroyed after being treated with the wrong chemical during development.
- Production has also involved World War II planes with swastikas painted on the sides, practicing in the airspace above Brandenburg.
- A replica set of Hitler's Eastern front headquarters Wolf's Lair was constructed 60 kilometers south of Berlin, though the headquarters' actual location was in modern-day Poland
- Nazi symbols, the display of which is usually illegal in Germany, were also used at several locations, and while the filmmakers gave forewarnings to local residents, a passerby witnessing the use of swastikas during filming in Berlin filed an official complaint with the city.
- In October 2007, Kenneth Branagh said that the German official who initially incited the complaints about Cruise and the filming contacted the production one week into shooting to apologize, after reading the script and realizing he had misinterpreted the film's plot.
- Eleven film extras playing Wehrmacht soldiers were injured on set in Berlin when they fell out of a moving lorry. One of the actors received a serious back injury while others had bruises, cuts and head injuries. An insurance company investigation concluded that the side panel had been closed improperly by one of the extras, resulting in it opening while the truck was in motion.
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26 June 2008: Singapore
10 July 2008: Germany
11 July 2008: Finland, Spain, UK
19 September 2008: Italy
10 July 2008: Germany
11 July 2008: Finland, Spain, UK
19 September 2008: Italy
