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Abel Ferrara and Gérard Depardieu Team For Dominique Strauss-Kahn Scandal Pic

By BRIAN BROOKS | Monday February 6, 2012 @ 10:40am PSTTags: Abel Ferrara, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu

American director Abel Ferrara told France’s Le Monde newspaper that he will make a film about disgraced French politician and former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Gérard Depardieu will play the principal role in the film that will revolve around Strauss-Kahn, who resigned after he was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York. Isabelle Adjani will play his wife Anne Sinclair. Prior to Strauss-Kahn’s resignation, he had been a frontrunner in France’s Socialist Party to challenge incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency. Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Le Monde: “It’s true that we’d like Abel to shoot in June, but he has 4 projects in mind and we haven’t yet made our decision.” Ferrara added, “Vincent doesn’t want to talk about this project, that’s normal, he’s the producer. But I’m the director! No one is going to stop me talking about my film.” The charges against Strauss-Kahn were eventually dropped, but the aftermath brought out other accusations of harassment in France and has likely fatally wounded any ambitions for national office.

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Gerard Depardieu May Star As IMF Chief As Abel Ferrara Preps Sex Scandal Movie

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday December 26, 2011 @ 12:48pm PSTTags: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu

EXCLUSIVE: Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Christ Zois are indeed working on a feature script partly inspired by this summer’s sex scandal surrounding former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval has confirmed it. Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle … Read More »

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