In an article published monday in the French weekly “Marianne”, about the extravagant behavior of the actor Gérard Depardieu, a passage concerns the trip in Armenia of Depardieu to the Festival “Karot” in 2010. His friend Gregory Pototsky, Russian painter and sculptor, tells a telephone conversation of the french actor with President Aliyev : “How could you, Gerard, my friend, go to my enemies the Armenians?” The sculptor says: “Gerard was shocked and grieved of this call. He replied: “I have no enemies, I am a man of the world. ‘”
Recall that Gérard Depardieu is well familiar with the history of the Armenian genocide. He also devised a script for a film featuring a Armenian of the diaspora who discovers his homeland for the first time. Himself to play the role. On 2010, he called the French Armenian community to give to the Armenian Fund.
Jean Eckian / Paris
