Depardieu to play sex scandal IMF chief

Gerard Depardieu is to star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film about the fall of the shamed former chief of the International Monetary Fund which ruined his chances of being elected president of France.

Isabelle Adjani will play his wife Anne Sinclair, who has stood by him as his political career collapsed after the sex scandal exploded.

The film’s director Abel Ferrara, who made 1992’s Bad Lieutenant starring Harvey Keitel, did not reveal who would play Nafissatou Diallo, the chambermaid who accused Mr Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in a New York hotel suite last May 14.

But he said: “It will be a film about sex and politics, and Gerard Depardieu will be perfect for the role.”   

Filming will begin later this year on location in New York, Washington and Paris.