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All the hard work that Tom Cruise and the Valkyrie team spent convincing a stubbornly indecisive German government to allow their film to shoot in the Bendlerblock, one of its most hallowed landmarks, was nearly squandered when a pranstker insensitive to their shooting location's place in the country's history decided to interrupt a respectful moment of silence with a perfectly timed fart-take. According to a report in the Daily Mail that's denser with flatulence synonyms than perhaps any piece of prose we've ever read, Cruise was allegedly less than amused:

Despite the Emission Impossible, Christian Berkel, 49 - who plays anti-Hitler plotter Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim - said: "The film's director Bryan Singer, the screenplay writer Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise asked us all to observe a moment's silence shortly before we started filming.

"It was a very moving moment." But our man with the dead canary in a cage added: "Fortunately the mystery trumper didn't completely ruin the touching gesture.

"We had faced a great deal of opposition from the German government, who only gave us the go-ahead when we insisted we would show post-war Germany in a positive light.

Quite rightly, Tom is furious. We were filming at the Bendler Block in Germany, where the anti-Nazis were executed.

"So Bryan and Tom asked for a minute's silence out of respect for the place and in memory of the war heroes who died there.

"For somebody to pass wind in a situation like that is unforgivable." [...]

Our sniffing spy concluded: "There is footage of the cast and crew during the silence. And the movie bigwigs will use this to find out who the culprit was.

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