Depiction in Media
Goerdeler does not appear, but is frequently mentioned in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, through Goerdeler's emissary to Rommel Dr. Karl Strölin (played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke) does play a large role in the plot. In the 1955 German film Der 20. Juli, Goerdeler was portrayed by the German actor Paul Bildt. The German actor Peter Schütte played Goerdeler as a supporting character in two West German TV films from 1970, General Oster - Verräter oder Patriot? and Claus Graf Stauffenberg. In the West German 1971 TV film Operation Walküre, Goerdeler was played by actor Willi Rose. The East German actor Max Bernhardt portrayed Goerdeler in the 1971 film Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow. In the 1972 West German TV film Der 20. Juli, Goerdeler was played by the German actor Hannes Messemer. In the 1988 American TV mini-series War and Remembrance, the actor Carl Duering played Goerdeler. In the 1993 German film Die Denunziantin (known as Just a Matter of Duty in the English-speaking world) dealing with Lisbeth Schwaerzel, the woman who had denounced Goerdeler to the Gestapo in August 1944, Goerdeler was played by German actor Dieter Schaad. English actor Kevin McNally portrayed Goerdeler in the 2008 Bryan Singer thriller Valkyrie.
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