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Fears prompt withdrawal of Van Gogh film

Staff and agencies
Thursday January 27, 2005

The Rotterdam international film festival has pulled the last contentious
work by Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh at the eleventh hour, amid fears that
the screening might trigger further acts of religious violence. The short
film, Submission Part One, was due to form the centrepiece of a debate on
freedom of speech on Sunday night. It will now not be shown.
Submission Part One is a ten-minute film about a Muslim woman forced into an
arranged marriage where she is beaten by her husband, raped by her uncle and
finally accused of adultery. Explaining the decision to withdraw it, the
film's producer Gijs van de Westelaken said: "We do not want to take any
chance of endangering anyone else who participated in the film."



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