Gerard Depardieu To Shoot Film In Bulgaria

French actor Gerard Depardieu will shoot a film in Bulgaria, reports Vesti.bg.

The shoot starts in November in the village of Kaloyanovo, near Plovdiv.

The production with working title Le Voyage is financed by Switzerland, the production team is Italian, the spoken language will be French. In the film will also star actors from the Plovdiv Dramatic Theatre.

The film will tell the story of life in a small village in the 1970's and an elderly man named Vanya (Depardieu) and his pet pig. Whenever the family decides to slaughter the pig and eat it, Vanya rushes to save it across the country, travelling in an old Trabant.