19.09 No Russian Funds for Tchaikovsky Biopic Amid Gay Denial � Director

MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) � A Russian filmmaker said Friday that he was seeking foreign funding for a biopic of the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, widely believed to have been a homosexual, amid ongoing controversy about Russia�s recently adopted anti-gay law.

Film director Kirill Serebrennikov said that the state-run Cinema Fund that finances movie projects �has not given money� for the film, which is expected to cost 240 million rubles ($7.6 million) and is scheduled for release in 2015, when Russia will mark the 175th anniversary of the composer�s birth.

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