A council banned the flying of Nazi Party flags from its building for a World War 2 drama starring Nicholas Cage. Waltham Forest Borough Council in northeast London had given permission for filmmakers to use their town hall in the film, Fortitude. The action-adventure spy film features Cage, 62, as Serbian double agent, Dusko Popov, and allied efforts to deceive the Nazis ahead of the Normandy invasion in 1944. But days before filming was due to start at the Portland stone clad, classicist-style town hall the local authority withdrew permission, arguing that the producers had broken a promise about the...
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