BERLIN (AFP) – The producers of Tom Cruise’s new World War II movie on Friday denied reports that film shot on location at a historically sensitive site in Berlin had been sabotaged.

“I categorically deny this. It is a technical problem, as one often sees in the film world,” Carolin Bitzer from Limelight, the public relations company for the filming of “Valkyrie,” told AFP.

She confirmed that scenes shot at the Bendlerblock in Berlin will have to be done again because the film was partly damaged during the development process.

“We will have to shoot part of the scenes again,” she said.

The Bendlerblock was the scene of the execution of Nazi resistance hero Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, who is portrayed by Cruise, and his fellow conspirators in a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 as Germany was losing the war.

There was strong resistance in Germany to Cruise playing the aristocratic von Stauffenberg because of the Hollywood star’s membership of the Church of Scientology.

Authorities initially denied the makers of “Valkyrie” permission to film at the Bendlerblock, which is now part of the defence ministry and a national monument.

But they relented last month after the filmmakers agreed to incorporate a scene showing that Germany had emerged from the evil of the Nazi regime to become a fully democratic country.

The scenes were filmed on September 21-22, with the cast observing a minute’s silence for the slain resistance figures before they began shooting.

Bitzer said the filmmakers had made a request to the authorities for permission to reshoot the damaged scenes at the Bendlerblock. (Source: Yahoo! News)