London
(ANI):
Actor
Tom
Cruise
observed
a
minute"s
silence
on
the
sets
of
his
latest
film
Valkyrie
to
commemorate
the
real-life
heroes
portrayed
in
it.
Actor
Christian
Berkel
has
revealed
that
the
commemoration
was
held
at
the
site
where
a
number
of
German
officers
were
executed
after
a
failed
attempt
to
assassinate
Adolf
Hitler
in
1944.
"It
was
a
very
moving
moment," the
BBC
quoted
Berkel
as
telling
German
newspaper
Bild
am
Sonntag.
He
revealed
that
Cruise,
director
Bryan
Singer
and
screenwriter
Christopher
McQuarrie
said
a
few
words
and
requested
the
silence
"out
of
respect
for
the
place
and
out
of
respect
for
the
life
achievement
of
these
people
who
were
executed
there".
The
shooting
for
the
film
began
on
Friday
at
the
Bendler
Block,
formerly
a
defence
ministry
facility
and
now
a
memorial
to
Third
Reich
resistance
fighters.
The
movie
will
feature
Cruise
in
the
character
of
Colonel
Claus
von
Stauffenberg,
who
was
executed
for
plotting
to
assassinate
Hitler.
Earlier,
the
German
authorities
had
banned
the
producers
from
shooting
the
flick
at
the
Bendler
Block,
but
they
granted
the
permission
upon
being
convinced
that
the
movie
would
portray
post-war
Germany
in
a
positive
light.