Russian Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov will soon start shooting a new WWII drama and plans to invite Angelina Jolie to take the main role, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said on Tuesday.

The new movie Love and War is based on a love story between three girls from a Moldovan village and three soldiers from Romania, Russia and Italy. The production will start in spring 2010 when Mikhalkov completes work on Burnt by the Sun 2, a sequel to the movie that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1994.

Love and War will be a joint Russian-Italian-Moldovan project, which also involves Italian and Moldovan directors Francesco Gagliardi and Valeriu Jereghi.

Jolie has been invited to play a school teacher, who witnessed the executions of her family and whose fiance was killed at the beginning of World War II.

The Hollywood star has so far not responded. "The script has already been sent to Angelina and we are waiting for her answer," said Gagliardi.

MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)