Nicolas Bedos went to the Balzac cinema in Paris on Monday February 6, 2023, to attend the screening of the documentary “Slava Ukraini” by Bernard Henri-Lévy. The filmmaker was accompanied, that evening, by his charming partner.
The Russian invasion is now at the heart of his work. After documenting the early days of the conflict with his film Why Ukraine?, Bernard-Henri Levy continues the adventure by unveiling, on February 22, 2023, the sequel in the form of a documentary entitled Glory to Ukraine – which means “Glory to Ukraine“. A few days before the official release of this project, the author and filmmaker therefore organized a preview screening at the Cinéma Balzac in Paris, on February 6. The opportunity to receive the support of those close to him, including his wife Arielle Dombasle and her daughter Justine… but not only.
They are very numerous, in fact, to have made the trip to the 8th arrondissement of Paris. If the subject of Glory to Ukraine is far from light, many went there accompanied. Nicolas Bedosin particular, had come to the arm of his life partner, Pauline Desmonts – she was already by his side, in September 2020, for the tribute paid to Jean-Loup Dabadie in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Manuel Vallsalso, held the hand of his wife Susana Gallardo Torrededia during the entire presentation of the documentary, and then during its broadcast.
Full support for Ukraine
Many personalities came to applaud Bernard-Henri Lévy at the Balzac cinema, in particular Anne Hidalgo, François Hollande, Roselyne Bachelot, Patrick Bruel, Claire Chazal, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Golshifteh Farahani, Caroline Fourest, Laurent Joffrin and his wife Sylvie, Marc Lambron, Ali Mahdavi and his mother, Danièle Thompson, Jean-Claude Meyer and his wife Nathalie Bloch-Lainé, Jean-Marc Dumontet, Bertrand Burgalat, Professor Etienne Beaulieu and his wife Simone, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Philippe Douste-Blazy and his wife Marie-Yvonne, Pierre-François Veil, Olivier Orban and his wife Christine, Alexandre Arcady and his partner Sabrina Guigui, Stanislas Merhar, Pascal Bruckner, James Thierrée, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and his wife Nicole Avril, Adel Abdessemed, Albina du Boisrouvray, Anne Sinclair, Pia de Brantes, Marc Tessier, Jean-Paul Enthoven and his partner Patricia Della Giovampaola, Marie Beltrami, Nicole Wisniak and Virginie Thévenet.
Also present were Michèle Halberstadt, the distributor of the film, Delphine Ernotte, the president of France Télévision, the Ukrainian soldier Ilya Samoïlenko, the musician Slava Vakarchuk, Maurice Levy, the president of Publicis, the Ukrainian ambassador to France Vadym Omelchenko, as well as Nicolas Seydoux, CEO and owner of Gaumont and producer Marin Karmitz. All that remains is for the average public to form an opinion on Glory to Ukrainestarting February 22.
