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Chelsea club owner Roman Abramovitch, producer of the movie “J'accuse”

2020-02-28T16:30:14.606Z


The Russian billionaire is one of the producers of "J'accuse", the film by Roman Polanski, nominated twelve times for Cesar awards.


In addition to the Champions League (2012) and five Premier League titles since the early 2000s, Roman Abramovitch may soon slide alongside his many football trophies, a Cesar. The owner of the Blues (since 2003) is indeed one of the producers of the film "J'accuse", by the director Roman Polanski (released on November 13), twelve times nominated at the César ceremony which will take place this Friday evening in Paris.

Contacted by L'Equipe , the entourage of the Russian billionaire did not want to make "any comment" on this information about a film at the heart of a controversy since Roman Polanski (86 years) announced that he was not go to the ceremony. The Franco-Polish is still being prosecuted in the United States for illegal sexual relations with a minor girl. The facts date from 1977. The filmmaker has just announced the news on Thursday so as not to "confront a self-proclaimed opinion tribunal ready to trample on the principles of the rule of law so that the irrational triumphs once again without division. "

Investments in cinema recently

Roman Abramovitch, whose fortune was estimated at $ 13.1 billion in 2019, made a fortune by investing in the petroleum and aluminum industries in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was not until late that the owner of Chelsea set foot in the world of cinema. In 2019, he was at the origin of the creation of a cinema support fund thanks to a foundation called Kinopraim. Thanks to an envelope of 100 million euros over three years, it was to support Russian but also foreign productions, not necessarily intended to be great commercial successes.

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