Film director Lars von Trier has been canned from Cannes.

A day after saying he sympathizes with Adolf Hitler, admires the late dictator's right-hand man Albert Speer and thinks that "Israel is a pain in the a **," the Danish director was barred from attending the prestigious French film festival.

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