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Update:VALKYRIE Not Banned in Germany
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Source: Variety
Earlier this week, it was announced that Germany would not allow filming of Bryan Singer's latest WWII thriller VALKYRIE on their military sites. Why, you ask? Because of the religious beliefs of leading star, Tom Cruise. The German Defense Minister went on public record stating how Germany does not recognize Scientology and they would not allow an actor who is a member of that "cult" to portray a German officer on their land in any movie planned by United Artists.
Despite that earlier report, German officials have either changed their minds or tired of the complaints following the decision. It looks as if the country will now allow the WWII thriller to film on their historical sites according to Variety.
"In this country we have constitutionally guaranteed rights," Kuehnau said. "Articles four and five of the constitution protect freedom of faith and creed and freedom of expression. I don't think those rights would be denied a film actor."
Cruise is set to play German officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a national hero who was executed in 1944 for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler in a plot codenamed VALKYRIE.The courtyard in which Stauffenberg and his fellow conspirators were shot is now a memorial, but the building in which it's located, the Bendlerblock, also houses part of the German Ministry of Defense.
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"Stauffenberg's son Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg has spoken out against Cruise playing the role, telling the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that "he should keep his fingers off my father," and adding that he feared the movie would be "terrible kitsch." "
Of course it does not eleborate if he simply does not want a movie made period, or if he feels the way he does due to Tom Cruise being a phycho cultist.