It Happened on July 20th (Es geschah am 20. Juli) 69 years old

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.

Credits

It Happened on July 20th Cast

Name Character
Til Kiwe He was 40, 80 years old when he died as Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften
Peter Lühr He was 49, 81 years old when he died
Bernhard Wicki He was 35, 80 years old when he died as Oberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Jochen Hauer He was 55, 66 years old when he died as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Siegfried Lowitz He was 40, 84 years old when he died as Malte Jaeger
Eduard Linkers He was 42, 91 years old when he died as SS-Mann
Lina Carstens She was 62, 85 years old when she died as Frau des Küsters
Heli Finkenzeller She was 43, 79 years old when she died as Sekretärin
Kurt Meisel He was 42, 81 years old when he died as SS-Obergruppenführer
Karl Ludwig Diehl He was 58, 61 years old when he died as Generaloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck
Gernot Duda He was 27, 76 years old when he died as Leutnant in der Wolfsschanze
Karl Schaidler He was 47, 81 years old when he died
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer He was 54, 88 years old when he died as 1. General
Albert Hehn He was 46, 74 years old when he died as Major Otto Ernst Remer
Hans Baur He was 57, 95 years old when he died as 3. General
Erik Frey He was 47, 80 years old when he died as General Friedrich Olbricht
Hans Cossy He was 43, 60 years old when he died

It Happened on July 20th Crew

Name Department
Herbert Taschner as Editor. He was 28 (68) years old when He died Editing
Werner P. Zibaso as Writer. He was 44 (72) years old when He died Writing
G.W. Pabst as Director. He was 69 (81) years old when He died Directing
Hans W. Hagen as Novel. Writing
Gustav Machatý as Writer. He was 54 (62) years old when He died Writing
Jochen Wilke as Novel. Writing
It Happened on July 20th poster
It Happened on July 20th (69 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, June 18, 1955
  • Runtime: 75 minutes