Spielberg calls home for poignant premiere TimesOnline UK
Spielberg calls home for poignant premiere
From Tony Halpin in Kiev
HIS films have brought home the horror of the Holocaust to millions. Yesterday Steven Spielberg came home to Ukraine to launch a film about survivors of the Holocaust in his ancestral homeland.
The Hollywood directorâs grandparents all came to the United States from Ukraine, but Spielberg had not visited the country before last nightâs premiere of the documentary Spell Your Name, by the Ukrainian director Sergei Bukovsky.
Spielberg told The Times that he feared that the âepidemicâ? of racism would lead the world into a new era to match the mass slaughters of the 20th century.
âHatred comes from fear and we have experienced a century of fear and I fear that we are going into another century of heightened fear,â? he said.
âUntil we get to the bottom of what makes people so afraid of the differences in others, and what we look like, we are going to experience an even greater century of fear.â?
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