A trailer, leaked online and posted by several websites, appears to be a film festival sales pitch the controversial movie starring Gerard Depardieu.
Depardieu plays a 'Mr Deveraux' - modeled after the powerful French politician, who was once a front-runner to become the president of France.
The very adult-themed trailer offers several scenes of Depardieu's character engaging in orgies, having sex with prostitutes and seducing young women.
Recreation: Director Abel Ferrara re-imagines the infamous scene where IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of assaulting a New York City hotel maid in his new film 'Welcome to New-York'
Sex-crazed: A leaked trailer shows Gérard Depardieu's character engaging in wild orgies, seducing young women and hiring prostitutes
The trailer opens with director Abel Ferrara's recreation of the alleged sex assault that brought down the mighty DSK and led to his arrest in May 2011.
A woman behind a closed door screams and struggles, shouting 'No! No!'
Strauss-Kahn was dramatically taken off a plane and handcuffed after a maid at the upscale Sofitel New York Hotel ac
The charges were later dropped due to inconsistencies in the maid's story to police, but the incident led to other accusations about Strauss-Kahn sexual predilections that sank his political career.
The film remains controversial because the sex assault charges were never proven and prosecutors determined that they did not have enough evidence to prosecute him.
That didn't stop Ferrara from imaging his own scenario for the incident at the hotel. The final scene of the trailer shows Depardieu's character wrapped in a bath towel, fresh out of the shower, when the maid approaches.
Spitting image: Gerard Depardieu, left, recreates the media storm surrounding the 2011 sexual assault trial of disgraced former International Monetary Fund head Dominick Strauss-Kahn, right
Photo hounds: The re-enactment featured a throng of photographers snapping images as the fictional DSK, his wife and daughter Camille Strauss-Kahn
Smoke break: Depardieu and Bissett on the set of the DSK movie shooting in New York City
In an interview with Swiss Television RTS last year, Depardieu revealed he agreed to play the part because he found his fellow countryman 'arrogant and smug', adding: 'He is very French. I will do it, because I don't like him.'
Depardieu will be joined on screen by Nip/Truck actress Jacqueline Bisset, who will play DSK's ex-wife, the French TV reporter Anne Sinclair.
And last month, the actors got caught in controlled chaos as they re-enacted the media storm surrounding the sexual assault trial, that ultimately collapsed in August 2011.
The scene depicted the media frenzy surrounding the case that was sparked when an immigrant hotel maid accused the then-IMF chief of sexual assault after she entered his suite to clean it.
It was filmed outside the same 6,800-square-foot, $50,000-a-month Tribeca townhouse that DSK stayed in while under house arrest as the case unfolded.
Controversial: Depardieu himself is no stranger to the courts and missed a hearing earlier this month in Paris over an alleged drunken scooter incident
Media frenzy: French actor Gerard Depardieu on location as disgraced former IMF chief Dominick Strauss-Kahn and Nip/Tuck actress Jacqueline Bisset as his wife Anne Sinclair filmed a chaotic scene on Thursday in New York City
Controlled chaos: A scene from the movie showed the media frenzy surrounding the sexual assault case
The film is being directed by American Abel Ferrara, whose credits include Bad Lieutenant, which starred Billy-Bob Thornton in 1992 and 1996 crime thriller The Funeral, fronted by Christopher Walken.
Announcing his latest venture last year, Ferrara said it would be set in New York, Paris and Washington, adding: '[It will be set] in all spots of power in fact: it’s a film about rich and powerful people.'
Depardieu himself is no stranger to the courts.
Earlier this month, the Green Card actor missed a hearing in Paris over an alleged drunken scooter incident.
The 64-year-old actor, who also failed to attend court for the last hearing in January, was more than three times over the drink-drive limit when he came off his moped near the Champs-Elysees in Paris last November.
He had been due to attend a 'correctional tribunal' in Paris to face a charge of drink-driving, but he did not turn up because he was filming his new role as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York.
Just like real life: The movie scene was filmed outside the same posh Tribeca townhouse that DSK was confined to during his house arrest
Then and now: DSK is shown leaving his Tribeca home in September 2011 surrounded by cameras
Poor wife: Jacqueline portrays DSK's wife, French TV reporter Anne Sinclair, and held onto an umbrella during the filming of a media storm scene
Sex scandal: Jacqueline's character got caught up in the international incident that toppled DSK
A judge said the case would go ahead in Depardieu's absence, and the Oscar-nominated star of Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac risked being sentenced to a maximum of two years behind bars and a £3,500 (Euro 4,500) fine.
Two years ago, Depardieu was also arrested for smashing up a car parked outside a swingers' club near his Paris home.
And he was involved in a separate scandal in France in 2011 when he urinated in the aisle of a plane in full view of disgusted passengers.
He also courted controversy in his native France this year after moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship to avoid a new 75 per cent tax rate.
Two years ago, Depardieu was also arrested for smashing up a car parked outside a swingers' club near his Paris home.
And he was involved in a separate scandal in France in 2011 when he urinated in the aisle of a plane in full view of disgusted passengers.
He also courted controversy in his native France this year after moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship to avoid a new 75 per cent tax rate.
Real life: DSK and his wife Anne Sinclair arrive at the Manhattan Supreme Court building in New York in August 2011
Nice bracelet: Depardieu portrays DSK while the French economist was under house arrest and forced to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts
When Depardieu announced his plans to move abroad to avoid paying high tax rates, he was branded 'shabby and unpatriotic' by prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
But the defiant screen legend retaliated by declaring he would also hand back his French passport, and wrote an angry open letter to the French government, saying: 'All those who have left France have not been insulted as I have been.'
He then told French president Francois Hollande in a personal phone call that he was 'sickened at how France spits on success'.
Depardieu is one of the few French stars known throughout the world, and has made more than 100 films, many in English.
He also notorious in France for his battle with alcohol and his turbulent love life.
Over the past ten years he has devoted much of his time to producing wine at his Lys-de-Volan vineyard near Lyon.
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