Operation Valkyrie II
GENRES:
Historical Drama / War Drama
YEAR OF PRODUCTION:
March 2026
LANGUAGE:
German
RUNTIME:
3,30 minutes
PRODUCTION / DISTRIBUTION:
A1GEN01 Labs 2025 | Ⓒ Jacek Kadaj
CAST:
On a sweltering July morning in 1944, as life at the Wolf’s Lair unfolds as usual, a single officer carries out a plan that could change the course of history.
On July 20, 1944, at the Wolf’s Lair headquarters in East Prussia, a day begins like any other. In the oppressive summer heat, routines unfold, officers move between briefings, guards stand watch, and Adolf Hitler remains isolated, surrounded by constant precautions.
Against this backdrop of ordinary military life, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg arrives from Berlin. Moving with quiet determination, he prepares to carry out a plan that could change the course of history. As the day progresses, tension builds beneath the surface of routine. Moments that seem insignificant begin to align toward a single, irreversible act.
The film captures the fragile boundary between normality and catastrophe, culminating in the failed assassination attempt that would seal the fate of its conspirators.
Operation Valkyrie II has been officially selected and honored at international film festivals.
Written, Directed and AI-Generated by Jacek Kadaj
Jacek Kadaj is a Warsaw-based filmmaker, photographer, and AI artist with over 30 years of experience in traditional cinema. Trained as a cinematographer, he has collaborated with National Geographic and Getty Images, earned numerous photography awards, and presented his work in international exhibitions. In recent years, he has embraced generative AI as a new creative lens, producing award-winning AI films that blend poetic imagery with emotional depth. His work seeks to explore whether technology can capture — and even amplify — the fragility, tension, and beauty of human stories.
Director's statement
This film is not about the explosion itself, but about the moments that surround it.
I was interested in the contrast between routine and rupture, how an ordinary morning, filled with small, almost insignificant actions, can exist just minutes before a decisive historical event. The heat, the waiting, the repetition of daily gestures, all of it creates a quiet tension that often goes unnoticed in traditional retellings.
Using generative AI allowed me to approach this story in a different way, not by reconstructing history literally, but by building atmosphere, fragments, and impressions. It became less about accuracy in every detail, and more about capturing a feeling, a sense of inevitability.
This film is an attempt to explore how new tools can expand cinematic language, especially in historical storytelling, where memory, interpretation, and imagination often overlap.
All characters and events in this film are fictional and AI-generated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
