Cruise too 'stiff' to play would-be Hitler killerTom 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 Welt am Sonntag ("World on Sunday") is a national German national Sunday newspaper published by Axel Springer AG, and established in 1948. Its head office in Berlin, and it has local editions for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf. newspaper that Cruise failed to capture what inspired people to join forces with his great-uncle Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf[1] von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany. . "Tom Cruise seems terribly cautious, almost as if he were afraid of playing the role. He tries to seem elegant but comes across as extremely stiff," Franz von Stauffenberg, who has himself acted in minor television roles, said after seeing "Valkyrie." "He seems not at all decisive in the role and above all not charismatic enough. On the whole he just seems too small." Cruise plays Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, a Prussian aristocrat who played a key role in a July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Von Stauffenberg placed a bomb under a table in Hitler's eastern headquarters in East Prussia East Prussia, Ger. Ostpreussen, former province of Prussia, extreme NE Germany. The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Masuria). , in modern-day Poland, but the Nazi leader escaped with slight injuries because the briefcase In Windows 95/98, a system folder used for synchronizing files between two computers, typically a desktop and laptop computer. Files to be worked on are placed into a Briefcase, which is then transferred to the second machine via floppy, cable or network. carrying the explosives was unwittingly moved behind a sturdy leg of the oak table. Von Stauffenberg and other conspirators CONSPIRATORS. Persons guilty of a conspiracy. See 3 Bl. Com. 126-71 Wils. Rep. 210-11. See Conspiracy. were rounded up and executed by firing squad. Franz von Stauffenberg said he had had a very different image of his forefather growing up than Cruise depicted de·pict tr.v. de·pict·ed, de·pict·ing, de·picts 1. To represent in a picture or sculpture. 2. To represent in words; describe. See Synonyms at represent. . "From what I've learned about Claus von Stauffenberg from the literature, history books and family stories, he is meant to have been a charismatic man. Someone who inspired people with his smile, his humour humour (Latin; “fluid”) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person's temperament and features. and charm," he said. Despite the film's weaknesses, he said he was pleased to see his great-uncle's story given the Hollywood treatment, enabling it to reach a global audience. "It ended up being a good thriller," he said. The makers of "Valkyrie" ran into resistance in Germany because of Cruise's membership of the Church of Scientology Church of Scientology: see Scientology, Church of. , which is viewed here as a dangerous sect. German authorities initially denied the cast and crew permission to film at the Bendlerblock, a complex of buildings in Berlin where Operation Valkyrie was planned and where von Stauffenberg and other conspirators were executed. Cruise is due in Berlin this week to attend the gala premiere of "Valkyrie" before the movie opens in German cinemas. 
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