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Carice van Houten is from 1976

Carice van Houten is a Dutch movie actress. She is pretty good and world-famous here in the Netherlands. She just did the Valkyrie movie with Tom Cruise.

The Germans don't like their history and they don't like Tom Cruise for his Scientology membership. The movie though got moderate to good reviews in Germany.

The story is about the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. The trailer from the tube is here.

When you know the background story, movies and music are much more appreciated. The 'Valkyrie' translates into German 'Walküre',
it's an opera from Richard Wagner. In the German legends, the Valkyrie are female horse-backed riders in white dress who hount you down untill your death.

The same theme and the same music was used by mr. Coppola in his 1979 Apocalyps Now movie.

Here is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in empeethree format.

Enjoy