Woody Allen denied that his participation in a Moscow film festival whitewashed Russian atrocities and said he believes Vladimir Putin is totally in the wrong and that the war he has caused is appalling. Allen stated that cutting off artistic conversations is not a good way to help. Allen appeared via remote link at Moscow International Film Week for a session hosted by filmmaker Fyodor Bondarchuk, a long-term political ally of Putin. Ukraine's foreign ministry condemned the appearance as a disgrace and an insult to Ukrainian actors and filmmakers killed or injured by Russian forces. Allen said he has no plans to make a film in Russia and expressed admiration for Russian cinema.
Woody Allen's participation in the Moscow international film week is a disgrace and an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and film-makers who have been killed or injured by Russian war criminals in their ongoing war against Ukraine. It added: By taking part in a festival that brings together Putin's supporters and voices, Allen chooses to turn a blind eye to the atrocities Russia commits in Ukraine every single day for 11 years now.
According to reports in Russian media, Allen said that he had no plans to make a film in Russia but that he had only good feelings for Moscow and St Petersburg. Allen also reportedly said he admired Russian cinema, singling out the four-film literary adaptation War and Peace, directed by Bondarchuk's father Sergei, which won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1969.
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