Depardieu enjoys working in France, so it has full agenda this year, with three shootings in door. EFE

• Scandal on the screen

The French actor will portray the controversial former director of the IMF in an Abel Ferrara film

Paris, France (05/FEB/2012)-El actor Gérard Depardieu return to the former director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in a film that will direct the New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara and rolls in the coming months between Paris, Washington and New York, according to the newspaper Le Monde.

So Ferrara confirmed rumors that some time in France on the participation of Depardieu in a tape on the former French Socialist Minister, known as DSK. The film rolls “in all centres of power, in fact – is a film about people rich and powerful”.

According to Vincent Maraval, founder of the Wild Bunch Distributor and producer of tape 4: 44 Last day on earth, which premiered at United States, has not yet set the date of commencement of filming, but he stated that it intends to begin next June.

It would have happened then little more than one year before DSK was arrested in New York after a meeting with the waitress at a hotel, who later accused him of sexual assault, a case that American Justice filed months later by doubts about the credibility of women.

High-impact

Ferrara said that his film will be a fiction and not search recreate what had happened in the room of the hotel Sofitel New York minute-by-minute. The scandal associated with the case led to DSK, who also aspired to become candidate for the presidential elections of this year in France, to resign from his position as managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Ferrara said that the script is already written and containing both the contributions revealed by the press in the past months as others from own sources. “I have my own policemen.”

PHRASE

”(Gérard_Depardieu) is everything a filmmaker can expect from an actor ”

Abel Ferrara,
filmmaker.