Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian filmmaker: “NATO and the EU will not avoid war”
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, in 2017. © Siegfried Forster/RFI
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He is one of the most famous Ukrainian directors in the world.
Sergueï Loznitsa was in Paris to present his latest film
Mr Landsbergis
on the hero of Lithuania's independence, at the Cinéma du Réel festival.
The filmmaker does not hide his pessimism for Europe, faced with this war started by Vladimir Putin.
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A few days ago, Sergei Loznitsa made an express round trip to war-torn Ukraine to exfiltrate his family.
For the 57-year-old director, "
Vladimir Putin's war is not a war against Ukraine, but against Europe
":
“
NATO and the European Union will not be able to avoid this war.
Putin is betting everything on this conflict.
It is isolated like North Korea
!
He's not going to let go.
And if he succeeds in destroying Ukraine, other countries will follow.
The Baltic countries are next on the list.
»
“
You cannot defeat a people
”
Sergei Loznitsa had filmed the pro-European revolution of Maidan and the Russian war in the Donbass.
Today, another project is taking shape.
“
Perhaps the next film will be a film about this war, which is going to be long, I'm afraid.
Russia will destroy Ukraine town after town while the Ukrainian army will defend the territory heroically.
Above all, I hope that the Russian leaders will be judged.
And then I will make a film which will be called
"The trial of Kiev"
.
»
Because in the long term, Sergei Loznitsa has no doubts.
“
You cannot defeat a people.
I firmly believe that the Russian Empire will collapse once again and that its government will be judged for its crimes
”.
In the immediate future, the filmmaker opposes the boycott of Russian artists.
For Sergei Loznitsa, "
we do not judge people on their passport
".
►Also read: War in Ukraine: the heartbreaking testimony of Ukrainian director Vlad Troitskyi
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