By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Though the Tom Cruise movie "Valkyrie" recieved mixed reviews in the United States, it has been greeted with a measured and hospitable reception in Germany, where it was once viewed with suspicion, Reuters reported.
In "Valkyrie," Mr. Cruise plays Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg, a Prussian officer who led an assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. During the film's production, the German Defense Ministry briefly refused to allow filming at Berlin's Benderblock memorial, citing Mr. Cruise's beliefs in Scientology (which is not a recognized religion in Germany), and Stauffenberg's son, Berthold, told Der Spiegel, "I fear that only terrible kitsch will come out of the project."
But in writing about 'Valkyrie" the Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper said that any fears that the "myth of the German resistance would be put through a Hollywood filter has turned out to be 'wrong and prejudicial.' And the German public broadcaster ZDF said that "Valkyrie" was "neither scandalously bad nore the event of the century. Neither is it the action thriller we feared, but it is a well-made and serious film."
Though the Tom Cruise movie "Valkyrie" recieved mixed reviews in the United States, it has been greeted with a measured and hospitable reception in Germany, where it was once viewed with suspicion, Reuters reported.
In "Valkyrie," Mr. Cruise plays Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg, a Prussian officer who led an assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. During the film's production, the German Defense Ministry briefly refused to allow filming at Berlin's Benderblock memorial, citing Mr. Cruise's beliefs in Scientology (which is not a recognized religion in Germany), and Stauffenberg's son, Berthold, told Der Spiegel, "I fear that only terrible kitsch will come out of the project."
But in writing about 'Valkyrie" the Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper said that any fears that the "myth of the German resistance would be put through a Hollywood filter has turned out to be 'wrong and prejudicial.' And the German public broadcaster ZDF said that "Valkyrie" was "neither scandalously bad nore the event of the century. Neither is it the action thriller we feared, but it is a well-made and serious film."
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