It now turns out that the Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie, about the World
War II "general's plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler, may have competition from
an award-winning German movie based on the same subject. Rights to the German
film, Operation Valkyrie, directed by Jo Baier, have been acquired by
The Weinstein Co., it was announced Tuesday. The film, originally titled
Stauffenberg, the name of the Nazi colonel who led the assassination
plot (played by Cruise in his film for United Artists), won The German
Television Award for the best movie made for German television in 2004. �
28/05/2008
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