Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed and co-produced by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander. The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country. The film was released by American studio United Artists and stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters. The cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp, and Tom Wilkinson.
Composer John Ottman provided the music for the film. The end credits piece, “They’ll Remember You,” is an original composition, but the lyrics (found below the YouTube link) were based on the poem “Wanderer’s Nightsong” by German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. —from Wikipedia.
Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh,
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.
O’er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait, soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.
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The featured image is a photograph of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907-1944), and is in the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Love the music. thank you!