Gerard Depardieu to Play Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in New Film.
, the Oscar-nominated French actor who took on Russian citizenship to avoid paying taxes in his home country, is set to star as the Soviet Union's leader Leonid Brezhnev in a new film set during the Prague Spring uprising of 1968.
Slovak writer Karol Hlavka is working on the script of a yet untitled film, which is to be directed by Croatian helmer Lordan Zafranovic . The movie will focus on Alexander Dubcek, the leader of Czechoslovakia who, in 1968, embarked on a series of reforms to the communist system aimed at liberalizing political life in the country. Brezhnev, however, brutally crushed the reforms by sending Soviet troops to Prague to clamp down on dissidents. Budgeted at $11.
Andrej Antonio Leka, the film's producer, told the Czech radio station Frekvencе 1 that Depardieu had signed on to play Brezhnev. He added that a "globally known" actor would portray Dubcek but declined to give further details, saying negotiations were still ongoing.
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