Film-maker criticises Danish PM for donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and posing with Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Danish film-maker and provocateurhas defended himself from backlash after writing a social media post that criticised Denmark’s donation of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
“Russian lives matter also!” he wrote on Instagram on Tuesday after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to, where he and Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, inspected the F-16s to be delivered to his country.Von Trier disabled comments on the post but it attracted the attention of Russian and Ukrainian media.
On Thursday, the 67-year-old director wrote that he “support[s] Ukraine with every beat of my heart! I was just stating the obvious: that all lives in this world matter! A forgotten phrase it seems, from a time when pacifism was a virtue.” The Danish press also questioned the remarks from the director, who in 2011 caused a storm when he said he “understood” Hitler during a press conference at the Cannes film festival. He was expelled by the organisers and subsequently investigated by Danish police and later apologised for the remark.
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