Filmmaker booted out of festival for Hitler remarks
The comments had ignited shock from the moment they spilled out of the director’s mouth, causing Kirsten Dunst, an actress in his film Melancholia, to lean over and whisper to von Trier, “Oh my God, this is terrible”.
Festival president Gilles Jacob said von Trier had been banned from the rest of this year’s festival, although he would not elaborate if the filmmaker might be allowed back in the future. It was an unprecedented move by the festival, which in 2000 had bestowed its highest honour on von Trier’s earlier film, Dancer in the Dark.
