Stauffenberg

It is important to bear in mind, that this German version of the Stauffenberg attempt to save Germany was made four years before the great American film with Tom Cruise. They complement each other. The German version is more concise and precise, more approaching a documentary telling the facts with efficient exactness, while the Hollywood version is more dramatic, has a more elaborate dramaturgy, is more efficiently made and is humanly more interesting, so both versions are vital. Sebastian Koch is a little too good-looking to be quite convincing as the scarred and crippled veteran of many battles and hardships, while Tom Cruise made one of his most convincing performances in all his vulnerability. Nothing bad can be said about either of the versions, it's an important chapter in modern German history, as an evidence of the fact that the national resistance against Hitler was only the greater and more bitter for being constantly suppressed, as there were any number of attempts against his life, of which at least one statistically ought to have been successful, but the bitter tragedy was that they all failed, and especially the greatest and final one, which was the most urgent one, because of unpredictable human factors.