The comedian started his recital dedicated to Barbara, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Friday, April 1, after publishing a statement to say his support for “Ukrainian victims”.
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Aware that the friendship posted by Gérard Depardieu with Vladimir Putin could compromise the separateious show Sang Barbara, scheduled three nights in a row, from Friday 1 Er to Sunday 3 April, the direction of the theater of Champs-Elysées, in Paris, had asked the actor to take a position clearly against the war. In early March, the theater of Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) had canceled its two parties of recital, arguing of the difficulty “to play a show as beautiful and sensitive in the current warlike circumstances”.
Long remained silent on the question, while he insured the promotion of the films in which he currently plays, the close to the chef of the Kremlin finally broke the silence by contacting the AFP on the phone, a week after the beginning of the hostilities. He called to “stop arms and negotiating”. In the communiqué published Thursday, March 31, the day before the beginning of the recital, the comedian, which has been a Russian passport since 2013, continues: “The Russian people is not responsible for the crazy unacceptable drifts of their leaders like Vladimir Putin. “And undertakes to reverse” the totality of the revenues of the three concerts to the Ukrainian victims of this tragic fratricidal war “.
Before opening the doors of the theater, Friday night, the public, who patient in the icy cold, greets the gesture of the comedian. “Let us stop emmerious, now. We come to see the artist, the rest, it’s his problem,” sweeps a phrase an old pelvous man who does not want to give his name. At the top of the stairs, a young woman brandished a sign in the hope of buying a place, the show being complete for all three nights. Romanian, she says that the friendships of separation with dictators do not “disturb”. And believes that the communiqué “shows that it understood something. It is smart”. “I hope the audience is not going to whistle,” slides a woman to the accompanying man when the doors open and the public joins the room.
Special resonance
Draw whistles, but applause nourished welcome the 73 year old artist, breath short and not slow. They punctuate the show where DeParieu interprets songs from the one who was his friend, accompanied by his faithful musician, Gérard Daguerre. The war in Ukraine will be mentioned only furtively, Gérard Depardieu amending a Göttingen couplet to evoke the suffering of the children of the city martyrdom of Maroupol, giving rise by vivaties of part of the public. Some songs evoking human tragedies, like black or perlimpinpin sun, take a special resonance – “Because a child that cries from anywhere is a crying child / because a child who dies at the end of your rifles is A child who dies / is abominable for having to choose between two innocences. “
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