“We made a very unapologetically biased film because that was the true story we found,” Penn said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - American actor-director Sean Penn premiered Superpower, his admiring portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at war, telling the Berlin film festival on Saturday the movie was also a wakeup call about Americans’ own fragile democracy.about Mr Zelensky’s rise from comedian to national leader when Russia invaded nearly one year ago.
The trained actor stresses in the film that the more quickly the war is ended, the less likely “Americans will have to fight” one day in a Russian war against Nato. In addition to Mr Zelensky, Penn speaks with diplomats, reporters and analysts as well as Ukrainian soldiers and pro-democracy activists to offer an “idiot’s guide” to the last decade of Ukrainian history.The film’s title comes from a scene in Mr Zelensky’s hit comedy show, Servant of the People, in which he tells his young son that he will protect him from any threat using his “superpower” – his love for his family.
He said that while America was now riven with political and cultural strife, he found in Ukraine “absolute unity pursuing all those things that without which life is not worth living”.
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