Stauffenberg is a 2004 Germano–Austrian TV film by Das Erste (German TV ARD), about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The film was first broadcast on 25 February 2004 on German TV (ARD). Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg becomes an enemy of Hitler's policy, because Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow informs him about German war crimes behind the Russian front. On 20 July 1944 he goes with a time bomb in his briefcase to a conference room at Hitler's headquarter Wolfsschanze near Rastenburg in East Prussia. Four people were killed immediately, but Hitler survived. The film was awarded "best film" at the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Awards). The film goes by the international English name of Operation Valkyrie. Cast Sebastian Koch as Claus von Stauffenberg Remo Girone as Ludwig Beck External links German language film lexicon 2004 films 2004 television films Films set in Germany German television films 2000s German-language films German-language television shows Films set in Berlin German biographical drama films 2004 biographical drama films Films about capital punishment Films about the 20 July plot German war drama films 2000s war films 2004 drama films Films directed by Jo Baier 2000s German films Das Erste original programming