An undated photo shows U.S. actor Tom Cruise as failed German Hitler assassin Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in a scene of the movie "Valkyrie" of which the shooting began at the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin on Thursday, July 19, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Tom Cruise's World War II thriller "Valkyrie" has suffered a setback because the footage of a key scene was damaged during processing at a film lab, media reported Wednesday.

    Cruise played Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg who was put to death following his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator in July 1944.

    He was also the producer of the film.

    The scene filmed at the Bendlerblock in Berlin, where Stauffenberg was executed will now have to be reshot.

    A spokeswoman for the production company told the media "a majority of the film material is unusable. We have to film it again."

    "The production company told us that there were problems with the negative development in Arri Munich, one of the top post-production companies in Germany. The images were wiped away." said Colin Ullman, a representative for the company.

    The damage was not extensive and the re-shoot would not have any effect on the film's production schedule or budget, according to the production company.

    Fortunately for directorv Bryan Singer and Cruise, the German government has agreed to allow them further access to the Bendlerblock, which they had previously been banned from filming because officials did not want the "dignity of the place" to be violated.

    (Agencies)