Valkyrie: Hitler's Berghof

This is how I feel everytime I go into my boss's office

Steiner's attack will fix everything for sure

Whoever they got to play the dog did an incredible job

Behind the scenes historical context: Hitler was at his mountainside Berghof celebrating Herman Feigelein’s marriage to Eva Braun’s sister. The wedding reception was held at the Eagles Nest, above the Berghof (still in existence today as a restaurant). The celebration lasted for several days, meanwhile the allied invasion of Normandy took place. Hitler departed the Berghof in early July, never to return.

- Reich Marshall Goering assures me that everything is under control. - Last time he told you that, the British bombed Berlin. - ...good point. Let me sign that paper.

The crazy thing is almost everyone in this scene killed themselves or was executed.

Bruno Ganz gets all the press with his incredible performance in downfall. But the actor playing hitler here is incredible too. The hunched posture, the delusional and egotistical personality, and the deep baritone speaking voice. Not as iconic and brilliant as Bruno Ganz, but pretty slept on in my opinion

"Goring has assured me the Luftwaffe can halt the attack on Normandy and supply 750,000 cut off German soldiers in Stalingrad by air. Also Goring has assured me the Luftwaffe will be able provide our U-Boats with the necessary fuel by dropping barrels into the ocean. Goring is also my acid my dealer"

I like the fact that they got hitlers speaking voice correct. His normal everyday voice was actually low and clear

"Normandy? That won't be necessary, Reich Marshall Göring has assured that everything is completely under control." Goebbels: Uh.....

Tom Cruise did a terrific job here portraying Stauffenberg. Respect.

Cruise played Von Stauffenberg very well. Notice when the children exit the room his head movements as he tries to use his one good eye to take in their full picture.

Such a german thing that a revolt has to be signed by the leader.

That german shepherd is so elegant

Here's a neat little detail: At 1:37 you can see that Albert Speer is wearing an Organization Todt armband. Organization Todt was a civil and military engineering firm that was founded by Fritz Todt. Speer succeeded Todt as the head of that organization, and also as the Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions after the latter died in a plane crash in 1942. Speer was originally supposed to be on the same plane. It has been suggested but never proven that Todt was assassinated on Hitler's orders, because he had previously recommended that Hitler sue for peace with Russia. Todt's production figures also suggested that the German economy could not support the defeat of Russia.

The guy who played goebelles steals this with his expression of the impending doom

German military dress is an art

Lesson: Don’t sign anything you haven’t read first. 😂😂😂

Few small inadequacies: -The Berghof was against the slope a mountain, not on top as we see at the beginning - Himmler was very rarely at the Berghof, all 3 at the same time even more - The round table with the globe where they sit was actually on the right in the room, not the left

When I watched this scene the first time, it was really tense for me because I thought that when Hitler was reading the document, he would notice the changes in the document that'd be used against him. Now, the more I watch it, the more I realise that when he opened the folder and started reading, he was actually clueless and started talking about Wagner and the Valkyries to try and disguise the fact that he didn't have the slightest idea of what was in front of him and signed it anyway whilst hiding his ignorance about it.