LARS VON TRIER SHOCKS CANNES WITH HITLER NAZI OUTBURST – WATCH VIDEO!0 Comments

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Posted on 18 May 2011 at 1:01pm

Melancholia director Lars Von Trier shocked audience members at a s” rel=”wikipedia” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes”>Cannes press conference when he made some off color comments about Hitler.

UPDATE: Lars Von Trier was banned from Cannes after his Nazi comments and named a persona non grata by the festival.
UPDATE: Lars Von Trier issued a lame apology after his outburst and the Melancholia after party was canceled.
Watch Von Trier stuns Cannes with Hitler comments

Flanked at the news conference by his two leading stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst, Von Trier made several references to making a long porn film featuring the actresses. ”I UNDERSTAND HITLER” As the conference drew to a close, the director, who won the Palme d’Or in 2000 with “Dancer in the Dark,” was asked to expand on comments he made in a recent interview regarding his interest in the Nazi aesthetic. ”I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew,” said Von Trier, who, according to biographies was told by his mother on her death bed that the father he had known all his life was not his real father. ”Then later on came (Jewish and Danish director) Susanne Bier and then suddenly I wasn’t so happy about being a Jew. No, that was a joke, sorry. ”But it turned out I was not a Jew but even if I’d been a Jew I would be kind of a second rate Jew because there is kind of a hierarchy in the Jewish population. ”But anyway, I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out I was really a Nazi, you know, because my family was German … which also gave me some pleasure.” Dunst looked uncomfortable as he continued his remarks, which clearly took reporters by surprise. ”What can I say? I understand Hitler. I think he did some wrong things, yes absolutely, but I can see him sitting in his bunker in the end. ”I think I understand the man. He’s not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him and I sympathize with him a little bit. But come on, I’m not for the Second World War, and I’m not against Jews. ”I am of course very much for Jews. No, not too much because Israel is a pain in the ass. But still, how can I get out of this sentence?” He expressed admiration for Nazi architect Albert Speer before ending another rambling sentence with: “OK, I’m a Nazi.”[via]

Do you think Von Trier’s career will be able to survive these remarks? John Galiano learned that Anti-Semitism is illegal in France.