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The American director Woody Allen poses on the red carpet of the film “Coup d’unse”, presented out of competition during the 80th Venice Film Festival, on September 4, 2023 at the Venice Lido.
CINEMA – An appearance that does not pass. Ukraine denounced this Monday, August 25, the Visioconference participation of the famous American director Woody Allen Monday in a Moscow film festival, believing that it was a ” insult “ to the victims of the Russian invasion.
The 89 -year -old filmmaker and repudiated by a large part of his industry due to charges of sexual assault against his adoptive daughter, spoke this Sunday at an online event of the Moscow international film week.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered that its participation constituted “A shame and an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who were killed or injured by Russian war criminals”.
Woody Allen “Choose to look at the atrocities that Russia commits to Ukraine”denounced the ministry, believing that culture should never “Being used to whiten crimes”.
“Russia has become wonderful”
Ukraine, which Russia attacked in February 2022, demanded the total isolation of the country on the international scene, including in the fields of culture and sport. kyiv therefore systematically denounces the participation of Western personalities in events in Russia, which however have been rare since the start of the war.
The conference in which Woody Allen participated was moderate by the Russian director Fiodor Bondartchouk, support of President Vladimir Putin.
During this session, Woody Allen said he would plan to shoot in Russia if it was offered to him, according to the Ria Novosti State press agency. “If such proposals existed, I was trying and would think about a scenario on the well-being that can be felt in Moscow and St. Petersburg”he said.
According to Ria Novosti, Woody Allen spoke of a trip “Not very pleasant” in the time of the Soviet Union, adding that since “Everything had changed, Russia has become wonderful”.
Woody Allen, master of comedy and social satire, almost no longer turns in the United States. He saw almost all of the profession turning his back in the United States since his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, accuses him of having sexually assaulted him when she was a child.