''Jackboot Mutiny'' (german: Es geschah am 20. Juli, literally ''It Happened on 20 July'') is a 1955
German film directed by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst about the
20 July Plot
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The ...
to assassinate
Adolf Hitler.
It features Bernhard Wicki as Stauffenberg.
Cast
*
Bernhard Wicki as Oberst Graf
Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
*
Karl Ludwig Diehl as Generaloberst a.D.
Ludwig Beck
*
Carl Wery as Generaloberst
Friedrich Fromm
*
Kurt Meisel as SS Obergruppenführer
*
Erik Frey as General
Friedrich Olbricht
* Albert Hehn as Major
Otto Ernst Remer
* Til Kiwe as Oberleutnant
Werner von Haeften
Werner Karl Otto Theodor von Haeften (9 October 1908 – 21 July 1944) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot.
Early life
Haeften and his brother Hans ...
* Jochen Hauer as Generalfeldmarschall
Wilhelm Keitel
* Annemarie Sauerwein as Frau Olbricht
* Jaspar von Oertzen as Oberst
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
* Willy Krause as
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...
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Lina Carstens as Frau des Küsters
* Gernot Duda as Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze
*
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Generalfeldmarschall
Erwin von Witzleben
* Peter Lühr as 1. General
See also
* ''
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' (1955) German feature film
References
External links
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1955 films
1955 war films
German war films
West German films
1950s German-language films
German black-and-white films
Films about the 20 July plot
Films directed by G. W. Pabst
Films set in Berlin
1950s German films
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