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Movie star Tom Cruise accepting the 'courage' prize at the Bambi Awards ceremony in Duesseldorf on Thursday. (Reuters) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 00:04 01/12/2007 Cruise wins award following portrayal of would-be Hitler assassin By The Associated Press Tags: Tom Cruise, Adolf Hitler Hollywood star Tom Cruise, who portrays a Nazi officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his latest movie, has won a German film award for his willingness to take risks in his movies, media company Hubert Burda Media said Wednesday. Cruise was presented with the "courage" prize during the 59th annual Bambi Awards ceremony in the northern city of Duesseldorf on Thursday. The prize committee said Cruise has pursued brave projects that otherwise would not have been made, including his newest film, Valkyrie, which details the failed Operation Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler. Advertisement Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944. "Tom Cruise is making an international public familiar with a story that has never before been the theme of a major Hollywood production: the German resistance against the Third Reich," the competition jury said in a statement. Some resistance to Cruise's work in Valkyrie has come from inside German government ministries. The Defence Ministry tried to ban Cruise from filming at the "Bendlerblock" complex in Berlin where the conspirators were executed. They relented after filmmakers persuaded them the movie would honor Stauffenberg. Cruise filmed at the Bendlerblock and elsewhere in Berlin this autumn. Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung initially said he did not want Cruise to film at the site because the actor is a Scientologist, which the German government describes as a cult. The ministry later said they were concerned about preserving the dignity of the site. The German media awards are named after the deer statuette winners receive. The daughter of one of the first winners said the figurine looked like the children's storybook character Bambi. More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us Killer Cruise Tom Cruise wins an award for portraying a would-be Hitler assassin in a recent film. Remember my name Millions of names, believed vanished, are being added to Holocaust museum records.   1.   His speech was Kitsch!! 17:25  |  Fritz Teich 30/11/07   2.   not an appropriate message 21:11  |  rootlesscosmo 30/11/07   3.   re #2 `not an appropriate message.` 22:22  |  Colin Wright 30/11/07   4.   No education about german resistance necessary? 02:44  |  Dee 01/12/07   5.   Colin Wright 03:10  |  rootlesscosmo 01/12/07   6.   Tom Cruise canonised 04:35  |  hala 01/12/07   7.   rootless... read this 04:43  |  Jim 01/12/07   8.   German resistance??? 13:24  |  Boris 01/12/07   9.   German resistance 17:24  |  Jakob 01/12/07

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