Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Dumas to come to the screen
The works of Alexandre Dumas, particularly the Three Musketeers, have been favorites of the silver screen. Now the renowed French actor, Gerard Depardieu, wants to bring the life of Dumas, himself, to the cinema. Depardieu hopes to develop a joint film project with Azerbaijan. Dumas traveled throughout the Karabakh in the 19th century and stayed with a poet, who was a daughter of the last Khan of Karabakh Natavan.
In the modern era this area has been a flashpoint of tension between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and an imperialistic Russia.
Depardieu will have to work very carefully around the literal and proverbial minefields, if he is to bring Dumas's life to the screen.
Labels: Politics, Pop Culture
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