It Happened on July 20th (1955)
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: G.W. Pabst
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Bernhard Wicki as Oberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg |
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Karl Ludwig Diehl as Generaloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck |
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Carl Wery as Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm |
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Erik Frey as General Friedrich Olbricht |
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Albert Hehn as Major Otto Ernst Remer |
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Til Kiwe as Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften |
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Jochen Hauer as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel |
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Siegfried Lowitz as Malte Jaeger |
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Kurt Meisel as SS-Obergruppenführer |
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Hans Baur as 3. General |
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Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as 1. General |
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Lina Carstens as Frau des Küsters |
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Gernot Duda as Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze |
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Heli Finkenzeller as Sekretärin |
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Ann Marie Sauerwein as |
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Jaspar von Oertzen as |
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Willy Krause as |
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Peter Lühr as |
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Malte Petzel as |
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Hans Cossy as |
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Karl Schaidler as |
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Eduard Linkers as SS-Mann |
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Oliver Hassencamp as Oberst Möllendorf |
| Writing | Werner P. Zibaso | Writer |
| Writing | Gustav Machatý | Writer |
| Writing | Hans W. Hagen | Novel |
| Writing | Jochen Wilke | Novel |
| Directing | G.W. Pabst | Director |
| Editing | Herbert Taschner | Editor |
| Camera | Kurt Hasse | Director of Photography |