Director's Cut
January, 2009
Dryan Singer's latest film, Valkyrie, stars Tom Cruise as would-be Hitler assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, a real-life point of light in the pitch-black Nazi era. "Von Stauffenberg was an extraordinary person," Singer says. "Anyone who puts his life in jeopardy for a greater ideal is certainly a hero." Singer's mother first exposed him to the history of Von Stauffenberg's conspiracy to knock off the Fiihrer after she learned about it on a trip to Bonn, Germany two decades ago...
