Cannes Grand Prix Winner Andrey Zvyagintsev Uses Acceptance Speech to Address Putin: ‘Put an End to This Carnage’

Standing at the Cannes podium Saturday night to collect the Grand Prix for “Minotaur,” exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev used his acceptance speech to issue a direct, personal plea to Vladimir Putin to bring the war to an end. Set in Russia in 2022, “Minotaur” follows Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov), a successful company director whose carefully […]