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Valkyrie Set Being Built A Week Before Filming

by leora on July 15th, 2007

I’m actually really interested in seeing this film.  It should be really interesting considering all the controversy.

A replica of Adolf Hitler’s secret wartime headquarters is being built near Berlin with just a week to go before filming of a controversial Tom Cruise movie on a German army officer who tried to kill Hitler begins.

Cruise is to play the chief plotter in the true story about failed bid to assassinate Hitler with a bomb in 1944.

The film crew has been banned from the Berlin building, now a memorial site, where the plotter, Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, was executed by Nazi firing squad.

Officials have said allowing filming at the site would lower the dignity of the memorial, but German politicians had earlier assailed Cruise, 45, over his advocacy of Scientology and demanded he be banned from the memorial. Scientology is suspected by many Germans of being anti-democratic.

US commentators, cinema industry leaders and part of the media have attacked the ban, insisting Cruise’s beliefs should have no relevance to his role in director Bryan Singer’s movie "Valkyrie."

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