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Gerard Depardieu in Baku for shootings of Alexandre Dumas documentary

Baku, September 12 (AZERTAC). French actor Gerard Depardieu is in Baku to cast in a documentary about Alexander Duma.

Depardieu plays Duma`s father.

Duma senior visited the Caucasus at the time when Russian Empire fought in the so-called Caucasus war in the 19th century, main acts of which took place in northern part of today`s Azerbaijan.

 

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