Another controversy. After having been repudiated by a large part of the film industry due to the positions of sexual assault against his adoptive daughter, the 89 -year -old filmmaker is today under the center of attention after his participation in videoconference at Moscow International Cinema Week this Sunday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considered that this collaboration constituted “a penalty and an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who were killed or wounded by Russian war criminals.”
Woody Allen “chooses to observe the atrocities that Russia is committed to Ukraine,” said the ministry, believing that culture should never “be used to bleach crimes.”
In this sense, Ukraine, which Russia attacked in February 2022, demanded the total isolation of the country on the international scene, even in the fields of culture and sport. Therefore, kyiv systematically denounces the participation of Western personalities in events in Russia, which has been weird since the beginning of the war.
Ready to shoot in Russia
The conference in which Woody Allen participated was moderated by Russian director Fiodor Bondartchouk, support of President Vladimir Putin. During this session, the American filmmaker of Manhattan EITHER Annie Hall He said he would plan to shoot in Russia if he was offered, according to the state agency RIA Novosti.
“If there were such proposals, I tried and I 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 also mentioned a “not very pleasant” trip to the time of the Soviet Union, and added that, since “everything had changed, Russia has become wonderful.”
Woody Allen, master of comedy and social satire, almost no longer works in the United States. He saw almost the entire profession turns his back on Hollywood since her adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused her of having sexually assaulted when she was a child.
Source: BFM TV
