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.
Top billed cast
- Bernhard WickiOberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Karl Ludwig DiehlGeneraloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck
Carl WeryGeneraloberst Friedrich Fromm
Erik FreyGeneral Friedrich Olbricht
Albert HehnMajor Otto Ernst Remer
Til KiweOberleutnant Werner von Haeften- Jochen HauerGeneralfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Siegfried LowitzMalte Jaeger
Kurt MeiselSS-Obergruppenführer
Hans Baur3. General
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