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Philip Oltermann in Cannes

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance

Sergei Loznitsa at the photocall for Two Prosecutors in Cannes.
Sergei Loznitsa at the photocall for Two Prosecutors in Cannes. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

One of Ukraine’s leading film-makers has spoken of the “nightmare” of an emergent alliance between authoritarian leaders in Russia and the US, as his new film on contemporary echoes with the Stalinist era opens at the Cannes film festival.

“The events that unfolded in the past 100 days really surprised many people all over the world,” said director Sergei Loznitsa, whose new film Two Prosecutors received its world premiere on Wednesday. “One couldn’t even imagine in a nightmare such a union, such an understanding between two authoritarian leaders.”

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