It Happened on July 20th
by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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Movie Review: The Jackboot Mutiny
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: Ehre und Tapferkeit
Summary: 5 Stars

The film itself is excellent, an almost perfect example of how to deal with a historical subject in a brief 90-minute canvas. The treatment is near-documentary, with virtually every scene taken from the record (with a few exceptions, such as Stauffenberg's encounter with the old couple outside a church.) It's the simple, step-by-step story of how the coup attempt began, faltered, and then failed, leading to the deaths of most of those involved, along with several million others. It's impossible to see this film and not wish to your depths that things had happened differently.

This is one of Pabst's last films. He made it as testimony, and it's worthy of that ambition. You could do worse than to familiarize yourself with the 20 July group and their noblest of failures. There may have been better men than Stauffenberg in our time, but I can't think of any.

Movie Review: Great Overlooked WW2 Thriller/ Drama
Summary: 5 Stars

German Video

• Genres > Art House & International > By Original Language
• Documentary > Military & War > Military History