It Happened on July 20th

Overview

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.

Release date

Jun 18, 1955

Rating

6.8 / 10

Runtime

1 hours 15 minutes

Genres

Drama
War
History

Cast

Bernhard Wicki
As Oberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Karl Ludwig Diehl
As Generaloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck
Carl Wery
As Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
Erik Frey
As General Friedrich Olbricht
Albert Hehn
As Major Otto Ernst Remer
Til Kiwe
As Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften
Jochen Hauer
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As Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Siegfried Lowitz
As Malte Jaeger
Kurt Meisel
As SS-Obergruppenführer
Hans Baur
As 3. General
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
As 1. General
Lina Carstens
As Frau des Küsters
Gernot Duda
As Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze
Heli Finkenzeller
As Sekretärin
Ann Marie Sauerwein
No picture available
As
Jaspar von Oertzen
As
Willy Krause
No picture available
As
Peter Lühr
No picture available
As
Malte Petzel
No picture available
As
Hans Cossy
As
Karl Schaidler
No picture available
As
Eduard Linkers
As SS-Mann
Oliver Hassencamp
No picture available
As Oberst Möllendorf

Crew

Werner P. Zibaso
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Role: Writer
Jochen Wilke
No picture available
Role: Novel
Gustav Machatý
Role: Writer
Hans W. Hagen
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Role: Novel
G.W. Pabst
Role: Director
Herbert Taschner
No picture available
Role: Editor
Kurt Hasse
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography

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