BERLIN () - Twelve movie extras are seeking $11 million in restitution from Tom Cruise and his yield company subsequently suffering broken bones, cuts and bruises in the filming of World War Two picture "Valkyrie" in Berlin last year.
The extras were injured on August 19, 2007, when the side panel of a period German army motortruck burst opened as it drove about a corner in central Berlin.
A lawyer for the extras told Television on Tuesday that witnesser statements indicated the truck's side panel had non been properly secured.
Cruise was not on the rig at the time.
"A newfangled letter has been sent to Tom Cruise, (business partner) Paula Wagner and United Artists, in which we set up out the facts of the case again and put a figure on the legal demands of our clients ... of $11 million," aforementioned lawyer Ariane Bluttner.
"Valkyrie" is named after the codename for a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler concocted by senior German military officers during World War Two. Cruise plays ringleader Claus von Stauffenberg.
The film's original liberation date has been postponed to December 26 from July 4 this year.
The German government initially banned the production from shooting on location at the Berlin situation where the plot was hatched and the conspirators executed.
It subsequently changed its mind afterward months of national turn over that focused in portion on membership of the Scientologist spiritual movement, of which Cruise is a member.�
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