Tom Cruise says he felt a huge burden of responsibility to history in bringing the story of one of Germany's few anti-Nazi heroes to the screen. In "Valkyrie," Cruise plays Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg — the aristocratic army officer who was among those executed after ...

Tom Cruise is too stiff and too short to play the would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler in his latest movie "Valkyrie," a descendant of the real-life plotter said in an interview published Sunday. Ahead of the film's release in Germany Thursday, Franz von Stauffenberg told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that Cruise failed to capture what inspired people to ...

US actor Tom Cruise was "deeply moved" by playing the would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler in the movie "Valkyrie," he said in an interview with a German magazine released on Tuesday. "All I can say is that I was deeply moved by the experience," Cruise told Bunte magazine in comments translated into German. In the film, which premiered in the ...