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Cannes cancels anti-Semitic film screening

May 28, 2012

(JTA) -- The Cannes film festival screening of "The Anti-Semite," a film
by a French comic with a history of anti-Semitism, was cancelled.

The film by and starring Dieudonne M?Bala M?Bala, was produced by the
Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center.

It reportedly pokes fun at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, where
an estimated 1.5 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and
features Dieudonne as a violent and alcoholic character dressed as a Nazi
officer for a fancy dress party. Robert Faurisson, a convicted Holocaust
denier, also makes a cameo appearance in the film. The film reportedly
will be sold over the Internet.

?Anti-Semitism has no place at Cannes, and we welcome the clear statement
to that effect from the organizers of the film festival,? said Abraham H.
Foxman, ADL national director. ?Dieudonne?s grotesque anti-Semitism and
Holocaust denial may play well to audiences in Iran, but the French
entertainment industry and society has clearly had enough.?

Dieudonne has been found guilty of inciting hatred in France.

Last year at Cannes, Danish director Lars Von Trier said he understood
and expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a press conference for his
film entry "Melancholia."

Quebec's largest concert promoter pulled the plug on four shows scheduled
for last month by Dieudonne, whose routine has included Holocaust denial
and joking praise for Adolf Hitler. Belgian authorities last month forced
Dieudonne to cancel two performances in Brussels. The French news agency
AFP reported that police stopped him mid-performance May 9 after
determining his act contravened local laws.
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