Rasputin with the French person

In April in the Arkhangelsk region passed shootings of a joint French-Russian film "Rasputin". The basic part of shootings pass in St.-Petersburg. In a leading role the winner of the international film awards Zherar Depardieu is occupied. He dreamed of possibility to play for a long time so ambiguous person. As the actor has told, Rasputin at it associates with Russian soul. Already from this characteristic clearly that founders of a picture don't want to approach to the given disputable image one-sidedly. Also it is planned to look in a new fashion at the person of empress Alexanders (the performer of its role - the French actress Fanni Ardan). From the Russian actors in a tape participate Vladimir Mashkov, Konstantin Habensky, Anna Mikhalkov, Xenia Rappoport, Phillip Yankovsky and Irina Alfyorov. As the director of "Rasputina" the founder of set of historical films José Dajon acts. It in work on a picture have involved not casually. «It seemed to us that the French director can unbiassedly look at this difficult period of the Russian history», - producers a tape declare. Exact date of an exit of "Rasputina" to the public isn't known yet.