Guardian UK: Scientologists try to block 'intolerant' German feature film

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Scientologists try to block 'intolerant' German feature film
Television network denies claims that Until Nothing Remains depicts group as totalitarian and unethical

Kate Connolly in Berlin
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 March 2010


Germany's state broadcaster is locked in a row with the Church of Scientology which wants to block an upcoming feature film that depicts the controversial organisation as totalitarian and unethical.

Bis Nichts Mehr Bleibt, or Until Nothing Remains, dramatises the account of a German family torn apart by its associations with Scientology. A young married couple joins the organisation but as the wife gets sucked ever more deeply into the group, her husband, who has donated much of his money to it, decides to leave. In the process he loses contact with his young daughter who, like his wife, is being educated by Scientology instructors.

Scientology leaders have accused Germany's primary public TV network, ARD, of creating in top secret a piece of propaganda that sets out to undermine the group, and have demanded to see it before it is broadcast.

The 90-minute film reflects an unease in Germany about the organisation, which boasts several thousand members across the country and has its headquarters in central Berlin. The church is considered anti-constitutional by its critics.

Tension reached its peak during the making of Valkyrie, the 2008 film about the plot to assassinate Hitler, when opponents said Scientology leaders had engineered the placing of Tom Cruise, its most prominent member, in the role as Nazi resistance fighter Claus von Stauffenberg, in order to win German supporters. The organisation dismissed the claim. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/scientologists-try-block-german-film

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1. cults are creepy anti-democratic brainwashing scams

and scientology is just one more on top of a pile of them.