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Rommel (2012)

Name: Rommel
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Released: 2012-11-01
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Benjamin Sadler, Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Thomas Thieme, Hanns Zischler

Rommel (2012), directed by Niki Stein, starring Ulrich Tukur and Benjamin Sadler.

11/01/2012 BR Action, Drama, History and War 2h

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Synopsis

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Niki SteinDirector, Writer
Corina DietzEditing
Ariane KrampeProducer
Jürgen SchusterProducer

About the film

Rommel is a 2012 German television film first shown on Das Erste. It is a dramatisation of the last days of German general Erwin Rommel.

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Rommel is a 2012 German television film first shown on Das Erste. It is a dramatisation of the last days of German general Erwin Rommel.

Plot

This made-for-TV-movie starts on the last day (October 14, 1944) of Rommel's life with a talk between him and generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel. In this talk the generals present incriminating material. They say Rommel has the choice between suicide and a trial before the Volksgerichtshof. After this scene the last months of his life from March 1944 are presented chronologically. At this time Rommel is responsible for the Atlantikwall built to prevent an invasion by the allied forces.

Cast

Ulrich Tukur as Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel

Tim Bergmann as Oberstleutnant Caesar von Hofacker

Rolf Kanies as Oberst Eberhard Finckh

Patrick Mölleken as Manfred Rommel

Hanns Zischler as Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt

Klaus J. Behrendt as Generaloberst Heinz Guderian

Benjamin Sadler as Generalleutnant Dr. Hans Speidel

Aglaia Szyszkowitz as Lucie-Maria Rommel

Robert Schupp as Hauptmann Hermann Aldinger

Peter Wolf as SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Hubertus Hartmann as General der Infanterie Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

Vicky Krieps as Comtesse La Rochefoucauld

Michael Kranz as Feldwebel Karl Daniel (Rommel's driver)

Johannes Silberschneider as Adolf Hitler

Oliver Nägele as General der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt

Hary Prinz as General der Panzertruppe Leo Geyr Von Schweppenburg

Hans Kremer as General der Artillerie Erich Marcks

Peter Kremer as General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf

Thomas Thieme as Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge

Max von Pufendorf as Generalmajor Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff

Herbert Forthuber as Generalleutnant Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld

Joe Bausch as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel (uncredited)

Ralf Dittrich as Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model (uncredited)

Detlef Bothe as SS-Gruppenführer Carl Oberg (uncredited)

Arthur Klemt as SS-Standartenführer Helmut Knochen (uncredited)

Harry Blank as Generalleutnant Rudolf Schmundt (uncredited)

Karl Knaup as Roland Freisler (uncredited)

References

External links

Rommel at IMDb

Text from Rommel (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_(film)

Trivia

It premiered on November 1, 2012, a Thursday.
It runs 2h00 — a typical feature length.
As of September 20, 2026, it is available in Brazil by subscription on Magellan TV.
This film's quiz has 9 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.