It was a good thing he was a film fan. A hostage stand-off in Ukraine has ended peacefully after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to the hostage-taker's demand to publicly endorse an obscure documentary narrated by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix.
The gunman, armed with an automatic rifle and grenades, surrendered to police and released 13 hostages on Tuesday after the president consented to his demand to recommend Phoenix's 2005 film Earthlings.
The animal rights doc, which won a number of minor festival awards on its initial release, is a scathing critique of humanity's use of animals as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and for scientific research.
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