Factual error: Somewhere in the middle of the film a close-up of a map of Europe is shown. Obviously, it is a map made after 1945. The borders of Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia show this.
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
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Henning von Tresckow: You scared me half to death.
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: You'll be closer than that before we're finished.
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Answer: Probably to prevent any interruptions.
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