11 hurt at filming of Tom Cruise movie
Updated: 2007-08-20 20:28
BERLIN - Eleven extras were injured during the filming of a new movie starring Tom Cruise, police said Monday.
 Actors dressed like Nazi army soldiers stand on the film set in front of the Finance Ministry on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. US actor Tom Cruise, unseen, plays Claus von Stauffenberg in the film, who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, in the movie directed by Bryan Singer.[AP] |
The 11 men, along with a companion who escaped injury, fell off the back of a truck on Sunday night. Police said in a statement that a bolt on a side panel of the truck apparently came loose as the vehicle turned.
Germany's Bild daily reported that Cruise himself was not involved in the weekend filming.
The extras were taken to a hospital, where all but one of them required only outpatient treatment. Filming work was stopped.
The movie, provisionally titled "Valkyrie," stars Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter, Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.
The weekend accident happened during filming of scenes around the Finance Ministry, which was once the Nazis' aviation ministry.
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