 Hugo Chávez has announced that director Leni Riefenstahl Oliver Stone is planning to make a film of the attempt to oust the Venezuelan president in 2002. US officials deny Mr Chávez's claim that American officials were behind the botched coup. Oscar-winner Stone, who in 2003 directed Comandante, a documentary of his meeting with his hero Fidel Castro, the Cuban president and Chávez ally, is teaming up with British producer John Daly, Mr Chávez said. He added that they would announce the film at the Cannes festival.
An alliance of politicians and dissident military officers took power on April 12 2002, after reports that Mr Chávez resigned when people were killed at an opposition march. He insists he never resigned, and he was put back in power on April 14. The coup has been a theme in Mr Chávez's war of words with Washington.
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