Agnieszka Holland Calls Out Polish Minister’s ‘Hate Speech’ Comparing Refugee Drama ‘Green Border’ to Nazi Propaganda (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Three-time Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland has called out a hard-right Polish minister who compared her refugee drama “Green Border” to Nazi propaganda, accusing him of “hate speech” and insisting that the Eastern European nation’s right-wing ruling party is “afraid” of her film’s damning portrayal of its response to the refugee crisis.
The movie is competing for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this week. “We expected that they would be furious. They are afraid of this subject.
They know we are telling the truth,” Holland said, speaking from the Venice Film Festival. “They are in denial — cynical denial, in my opinion.
And they didn’t think that we would be so vocal about it — that our voice would be heard in many places.” On Monday, Poland’s hard-right justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “In the Third Reich, the Germans produced propaganda films showing Poles as bandits and murderers.
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