Controversial Danish film director Lars Von Trier was kicked out from the Cannes Film Festival for uttering jokes that referred to himself as a Nazi and a Hitler sympathizer, according to Mirror News.
When asked about his German heritage during a press conference promoting his film Melancholia" title="WikiPilipinas: //www.melancholiathemovie.com/">Melancholia" rel="nofollow" target="wikipedia">//www.melancholiathemovie.com/">Melancholia, Von Trier replied, “What can I say? I understand Hitler. But I think he did some wrong things, absolutely. But I'm not for the Second World War and I'm not against Jews. I am of course very much for Jews. No, not too much because Israel is a pain in the ass.”
He then added: “I'm very much for Speer. Albert Speer I like. He was also maybe one of God's best children but he had some talent ... OK, I'm a Nazi!"
The Cannes Film Festival promptly declared the director persona non grata, and demanded an apology.? Von Trier immediately obliged.
"If I have hurt someone this morning by the news I said at the press conference, I sincerely apologize. I am not anti-Semitic or racially prejudiced in any way, nor am I a Nazi,” says von Trier, whose statements have stirred outrage from various Jewish groups.
"Hitler, the Nazis and the Holocaust are matters that should be treated with seriousness, not satire," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Von Trier, already controversial for his explicit use of unsimulated pornography for his films, also commented that he would like to have his Melanchoia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg to join his next project: a four-hour porn film entitled Nymphomaniac, which explores the sexuality of women.
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