It Happened on July 20th

It Happened on July 20th

75 mins | Drama, War, History | June 18, 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.

It Happened on July 20th

75 mins | Drama, War, History | June 18, 1955

It Happened on July 20th
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Ariston Film GmbH, Arca-Filmproduktion
Original title Es geschah am 20. Juli
Directors G.W. Pabst
Writers Jochen Wilke, Hans W. Hagen, Gustav Machatý, Werner P. Zibaso

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

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

Eduard Linkers

as SS-Mann