'I'm not Nazi' - Lars von Trier in RT exclusive on Cannes Hitler remarks

The 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been stirred up by perhaps the biggest scandal in its history - thanks to the director of "Antichrist", the Danish "infant terrible", Lars von Trier. It happened when the provocative director told the press conference at Cannes, in response to a question about his German roots, that "he understands Hitler and sympathises with him."

During the interview arranged about 40 kilometers from Cannes, RT asked the controversial filmmaker how it all came to happen.

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[Vanaheimrr]

@LadyCaricata sure we are, in fact everyone in scandinavia are barbarians - and we eat small brasilian girls for breakfast

[sonatime]

so honest and open, too bad this interview wasn't longer. Real personality nothing artificial

[megalosauru]

@MisterRiffley Agreed!!!

Oh, the irony...

[rloken]

it's really true, in Denmark being a nazi is legitimate

[rloken]

love him.

[Cerberus889]

He is so socially impaired that is cute.

[ArtAristocracy]

We are all Nazi's, The west may have won the war but Nazi Germany won the peace

[MisterRiffley]

I like how he explains away his stupid comments by saying he WASN'T drunk when he made them.

[hhhaaa68]

I thought that US is the racist country in the world. Now I know that all European countries are more racist than the US!

[schnemaa1]

A product of Hitler's failed vision, hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah­a

[schnemaa1]

A nazi JEW, ahahahaha

[schnemaa1]

yes, all of Denmark, a shit country, he is not a nazi?? Lumping a whole people into a negative group and then dismissing them. "the only good german is a dead german". Yes, he is a nazi, because he is from Germany, simple as that. Pray for this world.