Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance

In Cannes to promote his Stalinist drama Two Prosecutors, the film-maker said he feared the US and Russia would soon become equal'

One of Ukraine's leading film-makers has spoken of the nightmare" of an emergent alliance between authoritarian leaders in Russia and the US, as his new film on contemporary echoes with the Stalinist era opens at the Cannes film festival.

The events that unfolded in the past 100 days really surprised many people all over the world," said director Sergei Loznitsa, whose new film Two Prosecutors received its world premiere on Wednesday. One couldn't even imagine in a nightmare such a union, such an understanding between two authoritarian leaders."