Factual error: Approximately three quarters of the way in to the film, there is a close up of a German soldier handing an officer a file of documents. The helmet that the soldier is wearing is a post war 1960s version. This can be determined by the lack of an air vent and rivet on the side of the helmet.
Valkyrie (2008)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, Carice van Houten
Beck (Terence Stamp) kills himself when Major Remer (Thomas Kretschmann) arrests the key figures of the conspiracy. Olbricht (Bill Nighy), Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), von Haeften and von Quirnheim are executed by a firing squad. General Fromm (Tom Wilkinson) is executed the following year. Fellgiebel (Eddie Izzard), von Witzleben and von Helldorf are executed and Goerdeler is hanged. Tresckow (Kenneth Branagh) kills himself. This conspiracy was the last of 15 known attempts by Germans to kill Hitler. Nine months after the conspiracy, the Allies get to Berlin and Hitler kills himself. Stauffenberg's wife and her children survive the war. She died in 2006.
Alex
More mistakes in Valkyrie
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: I am involved in high treason with all means available to me. Can I count you in?
Werner von Haeften: For anything, sir. Anything at all.
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: "Anything" is a *very* dangerous word, Lieutenant.
More trivia for Valkyrie
Question: Why did Stauffenberg have to put in his prosthetic eye whenever he had to be in Hitler's presence?
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Answer: In real life, Stauffenberg regularly switched from wearing his glass eye and an eye patch. He wore the glass eye when meeting with senior officers, not only Hitler. At other times, he used the eye patch. This was attributed to the glass eye probably being uncomfortable. Presumably, he did not want to appear handicapped or weak to his superiors. He may also have felt the eye patch was a distraction or looked less dignified.
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