Germany Bans Tom Cruise from Filming New Movie
Filed Under Movie News by Skoopz
We’re guessing that “psychiatry is Nazi science” bit stuck in the minds of German officials. Tom Cruise was barred by the country’s Defense Ministry from filming at German military sites for a new movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler because of his Scientology beliefs.
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.”
The U.S. actor will portray Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase.
Stauffenberg had been deeply opposed to the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews and planted a briefcase bomb under a table near Hitler in his “Wolf’s Lair” headquarters on July 20, 1944. The bomb went off but only wounded the Fuehrer.
“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.
Are they saying Mr. Cruise is a joke?
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