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Dominican Rep. Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case
- Original title
- Bunt. Delo Litvinenko (Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case)
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
Russia- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | True Crime
- Movie Groups
- About Alexander Litvinenko
- Synopsis
- The story of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko poisoned last November in London told in his own words and in interviews with his widow, his friends and his alleged killers unravels the dark secrets of the Kremlin.
During five years between his escape from Russia and his poisoning with radioactive Polonium-210 last November in London, former FSB (ex-KGB) agent Alexander (Sasha) Litvinenko spent hours with filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov explaining the reasons of his rebellion and detailing the rise of the police state in Russia in the past decade.
His narrative, interrupted by flashbacks into history, explains how the hopes for freedom and democracy after the collapse of Soviet Communism have been dashed by the war in Chechnya and the consolidation of power by President Vladimir Putin.
Litvinenko’s entanglement in the power struggle between his FSB employers and dissident oligarchs led to his arrest and brief imprisonment followed by a daring escape with his family into the safety of political asylum in London.
His subsequent investigation of the alleged involvement of FSB in the 1999 bombings of apartment houses in Moscow, which was blamed on the Chechens and served as the pretext for the war, made him the sworn enemy of the Kremlin. From a string of unexplained deaths and unsolved murders of opposition figures and journalists, Litvinenko predicted his own end. At his deathbed he accused President Putin of ordering his assassination.
His two former KGB colleagues who allegedly slipped Polonium-210 into his tea during a meeting in a London bar, denied any wrongdoing in an interview in Moscow. President Putin angrily rejected allegations of official involvement. But Litvinenko’s friends in the émigré community, and his widow Marina are not so sure… (info from its official site).
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