Jackboot Mutiny Explained

Jackboot Mutiny
Director:	Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Producer:	Jochen Genzow Franz Seitz
Starring:	Bernhard Wicki
Cinematography:	Kurt Hasse
Editing:	Herbert Taschner
Runtime:	75 minutes
Country:	West Germany
Language:	German

Jackboot Mutiny (German: '''Es geschah am 20. Juli''', literally It Happened on 20 July) is a 1955 West German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst about the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.^[1] It features Bernhard Wicki as Stauffenberg.

Cast

• Bernhard Wicki as Oberst Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
• Karl Ludwig Diehl as Generaloberst a.D. Ludwig Beck
• Carl Wery as Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
• Kurt Meisel as SS Obergruppenführer
• Erik Frey as General Friedrich Olbricht
• Albert Hehn as Major Otto Ernst Remer
• Til Kiwe as Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften
• Jochen Hauer as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
• Annemarie Sauerwein as Frau Olbricht
• Jaspar von Oertzen as Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
• Willy Krause as Joseph Goebbels
• Lina Carstens as Frau des Küsters
• Gernot Duda as Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze
• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben
• Peter Lühr as 1. General

See also

• The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955) German feature film

Notes and References

1. Web site: Es Geschah Am 20. Juli (1955). https://web.archive.org/web/20160307232733/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/148487/Es-Geschah-Am-20-Juli/overview. March 7, 2016. Movies & TV Dept. . . Hal Erickson . Hal Erickson (author) . 2016 . dead.