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| Germany bans Cruise film shoot from military sites |
| 2007-06-26 |
| Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject. The U.S. actor has been cast as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase. Defense Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult". "In general, the Bundeswehr (German military) has a special interest in the serious and authentic portrayal of the events of July 20, 1944 and Stauffenberg's person," Kammerbauer said. Good thing Omar Shariff isn't making movies any more. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #7 "Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money" Damn! The Chormans ain't as dumb as we thought. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-26 16:27 |
| #6 That seems fair. I won't see any movie made by Tom Cruise either. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-26 09:44 |
| #5 Stauffenberg suported Hitler against Hindenburg in the 1932 elections. However, it seems that at this tiùme he only looked at the nationalist part of Nazism and that his opposition in the following years was for moral reasons. However the other members of the conspiracy only opposed Hitler because he was losing teh war and they thought his removal would appease the allies, allow a separate peace and Germany would remain free to concentrate against teh Russians. They even dreamed to keep seome of the ill-gotten territories gaiuned by the Nazis (Sudetes, Alsace-Lorraine), in fact everything who spoke German (1). I am not even sure about what Stauffenberg's friends would have done about final solution. (1) Everything who speaks German can imply, between other things, Holland. German is a linguistic continuum where people from a region understand the dialect from their neighbours but not the dialect of their neighours of their neighbours. In fact the dialects of North Germany are closer to Dutch than to the dialects of South and to Hochdeutsch (official German). |
| Posted by: m 2007-06-26 04:31 |
| #4 Evan more lucky his not black living in east L.A |
| Posted by: Caesar Unaviting9425 2007-06-26 03:23 |
| #3 Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, Lucky for Tom he's not a Jew! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-06-26 01:56 |
| #2 Well moran hollywoood actors and uneducated americans world has to much of :)) |
| Posted by: Caesar Unaviting9425 2007-06-26 01:20 |
| #1 Idiot Krauts all stuffed about the Scientology kooks but are allowing the Islamos to over run the entire country. Tom Cruise is a nut case, but very harmless. Your f**kin' Turks on the other hand.... |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-06-26 01:08 |