History à la Hollywood – Tom Cruise Portrays Colonel Stauffenberg - a21 (17.01.2009)

"With his decision to play Count Stauffenberg, Tom Cruise will change the image the world has of Germans." That was what German newspapers wrote just a year ago. In "Valkyrie" Cruise portrays the aristocratic German army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. ARTS.21 asks how the cinematic review of this dramatic episode of German history turns out in the end.