François Margolin – ©Charles Gubler
Screenwriter, director, producer, François Margolin is the author of around twenty documentary or fiction films, including “The Opium of the Taliban”, “The Little Soldiers” and “Salafists”.
At the beginning of May, he left for Ukraine in the middle of the war and returned with the feeling of having witnessed a genocide reminiscent of the tragedies of the XNUMXth century.
Ukrainian of origin, Margolin is intimately familiar with this country attacked by Vladimir Putin's army. At the beginning of the last century, his grandfather fled Soviet Ukraine to settle in France. But his eight siblings were not so lucky. Remaining there, they were all killed during the "Shoah by bullets", as we call the first phase of the destruction of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis before the implementation of the "final solution ".
In a video filmed by Marais Mood at the end of May 2022, he shares his analysis. If, for him, Volodymyr Zelensky quickly rose to the height of the historical situation to become a real war leader, this is not the case for the French president. Interview.
Text: Katia Barillot
Video: Charles Gubler
21.06.22
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