''The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' () is a 1955 West German feature film produced by

CCC Film CCC Film (German: Central Cinema Compagnie-Film GmbH) is a German film production company founded in 1946 by Artur Brauner. A Polish Jew who survived the Nazi era by fleeing to the Soviet Union, he lost dozens of relatives to the Nazis. His primar ...

about the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to assassinate

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

Falk Harnack Falk Harnack (2 March 1913 – 3 September 1991) was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Gr ...

directed and co-wrote the film's script with

Günther Weisenborn Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was a German writer and fighter in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was notable for collaborating with Bertolt Brecht, along with Hanns Eisler, Slatan Dudow, on the play, '' The Mother ...

.''Der 20. Juli''

Fritz Bauer Fritz Bauer (16 July 1903 – 1 July 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Early ...

Institut / Cinematography of the Holocaust. Retrieved March 1, 2012

Wolfgang Preiss Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German, and drama in the early 1930s. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schle ...

won the German Federal Film Award for his role as the rebel army officer,

Claus von Stauffenberg Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Op ...

. The film has a realism that comes very close to the style of a documentary. ''The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' was released in the same year as G.W. Pabst's film, '' Es geschah am 20. Juli,'' (English title, ''Jackboot Mutiny''), which deals with the same subject.

Reviews

Lexicon of international film: A film that was carefully cast down to the smallest role and advised in detail by members of the resistance, which attracted positive attention in German cinema in the 1950s.

Awards

The FBL awarded the film the title valuable. The screenwriters Günther Weisenborn and Werner Jörg Lüddecke received the Federal Film Prize in silver in 1956. Wolfgang Preiss also received the Federal Film Prize in silver in 1956 for his portrayal. Producer Artur Brauner received the film award for the "feature film that makes a particularly lasting contribution to awakening civic awareness". The film was recommended by the Evangelical Film Guild as “best film of the month” (July 1955).

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Review at Filmportal
1955 films 1950s war films German war films West German films 1950s German-language films Films about the 20 July plot Films set in Germany Films set in Berlin German World War II films German black-and-white films 1950s German films German-language war films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub