Ah, new Fayed propaganda. Can't wait to see it.
B. B.
From:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/cannes/article3953867.ece
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From Times Online
May 17, 2008
Mohamed Al-fayed funds film about the royals
Richard Brooks, arts editor, in Cannes
MOHAMED Al-FAYED has reopened his battle with the royal family by putting
£3m towards a do***entary which resurrects claims about the Nazi links of
the Duke of Edinburgh's relatives.
The film also includes allegations that the inquest into the deaths of
Princess Diana and Fayed's son Dodi was fixed and marred by corruption.
There Are Dark Forces, which takes its title from a remark allegedly made
by
the Queen to the former royal servant Paul Burrell, is directed by the
actor
and comedian Keith Alen, father of the singer Lily and a longstanding
friend
of Fayed.
The film is nearly finished and 20 minutes of the £8m production was shown
amid great secrecy yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival to a few selected
American journalists. Lawyers for the film decided it was too "potentially
seditious" to be seen by the British press.
It will be seen as yet another attempt by Fayed to discredit the royals -
who he has called "that Dracula family" - and what he sees as a plot by
the
British establishment.
One contentious sequence in the film is footage of the teenaged Duke of
Edinburgh at the funeral of his elder sister Cecile, in Germany in 1937.
Philip is seen walking behind the coffin surrounded by mourners in Nazi
uniforms. There are also pictures of him at social events in Germany
before
the war where he is seen with Nazis in brown****rt uniforms.
The photographs, some previously unseen, were acquired from a German
archive.
Philip went on to serve with distinction in the Royal Navy in the second
world war.
The film slides from footage of the young Philip to still photos of Prince
Harry taken three years ago in a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party. The
implication appears to be that there is a thread of association with
Nazism
running through some of the royal family.
The inquests into the deaths of Diana and Fayed's son Dodi concluded last
month with verdicts that there was no attempt to murder them. Despite his
earlier conspiracy theories, Fayed said afterwards that he accepted the
verdict, but the new film depicts the inquest as a fix.
Allen, who is also the father of the singer Lily, made a Channel 4
do***entary about the owner of Harrods in 2005. Both men sup****t Fulham
football club, which Fayed owns. Allen, like Fayed, has said in the past
he
does not believe Diana's death was an accident. Allen, who narrates and
appears in the film, asserts that the British media has made up its mind
about Diana's death before the inquest. He interviews al Fayed himself as
well as the American writer Kitty Kelly, who wrote a book on the Royals,
Howard Stern the controversial American broadcaster, and actor Tony Curtis
who was the friend of Dodi Fayed. All are sympathetic to the notion that
Diana was in some way murdered.
The film, which was researched during the inquest by the re****ter Richard
Wiseman, is critical of some of the behaviour of the British Press.
The film recreates a scene where the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas
Witchell apparently falls asleep during the inquest, which, according to
the
film, he did quite regularly.
Production notes for the film, which is looking for an American
distributor
at Cannes says that the Queen herself is "a corrupting force in British
society" and that the do***entary has examined the inquiry and found it
wanting." It is, as it were, says the production notes "an antidote to the
2006 film The Queen".
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