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French Director Michel Hazanavicius Voices Fears Over Rising Antisemitism: “How Could I Have Become So Evil In Such A Short Time?”
In A Le Monde Article Director, Whose Grandparents Fled Persecution In The 1920s, Asked: "“How Could I have Become So Evil In Such A Short Time?”
The opinion piece comes amid a sharp rise in the number of recorded antisemitic incidents in Europe and North America, in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. Hazanavicius, whose diverse filmography also spans comedies such as OSS 117: Cairo Nest Of Spies, Jean-Luc Godard biopic Redoubtable and the zombie picture Final Cut, is gearing up for the release later this year of The Most Precious Of Cargoes, his first film directly tackling the consequences of antisemitism. The somber animated feature – adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 novel – follows the fate of a baby found by a childless, Polish peasant woman after been thrown from an Auschwitz-bound train by her desperate father.
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