In full invasion of Ukraine for Russia, filmmaker Woody Allen participated this Sunday in the International Moscow Cinema Week. The director participated by videoconference after Russian film producer Fiódor Bondarchuk, son of the director of War and peace, He will invite him to the meeting.
During his speech, the filmmaker not only remembered his taste for Russian cinema, but did not rule out shooting a film in Russia. “If there were offers, I would sit down to think about a script that reflected how well one feels in Moscow and St. Petersburg,”.
The Ukrainian authorities have not taken long to react to Allen’s intervention, showing their outrage. In its social networks, the Ukraine Foreign Ministry said that “it is an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who have died or have been injured by Russian war criminals.”
“It is a shame and an insult to the sacrifice of the Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who have been killed or wounded by Russian war criminals,” the authorities regretted, who accuse the filmmaker of “looking elsewhere.”
“Culture should never be used to bleach crimes or to serve as a propaganda tool. We severely condemn Woody Allen’s decision to bless the bloody Moscow festival with its intervention,” the Ukraine Foreign Ministry concluded.
Fiódor Bndarchuk is a member of the Supreme Council of Russia Unida, Putin party, and has participated in different electoral campaigns. In his speech, Allen recalled his meeting with the director of War and Peace in the United States. “I had the pleasure of meeting Serguéi Bondarchuk several years ago in New York. I saw the Russian film Guerra y Paz, which lasts almost seven hours, in a single day,” he recalled, in addition to offering to help the Russian film industry.
