Exiled Russian director Andrey Zviaguintsev called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end “the butchery” as he accepted his Grand Prize for Minotaur at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.
“Millions of people on both sides of the front ine dream of only one thing: for the massacres to stop,” he said in Russian to the packed auditorium for the awards ceremony, which was streamed live worldwide.
“The only person who can stop this carnage is the President of the Russian Federation. Put an end to this slaughter; the whole world is waiting for it,” he said.
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