2006. Alexander Litvinenko, the husband of Marina Litvinenko, was poisoned with radioactive polonium. After three weeks of excruciating suffering, he died accusing a man: Vladimir Putin. The photo of his beardless face, destroyed by the poison, travelled around the world. Alexander Litvinenko was a former agent of the FSB, the Russian security services of which Vladimir Putin had taken the head shortly before his accession to power. In the year 2000, Litvinenko had publicly denounced the collusion of his hierarchy with the mafia, via a filmed press conference where all appear masked, except him, speaking in the center. Then he fled with wife and child to London.
There, although regularly harassed and threatened at home, Alexander Litvinenko continued his fight to denounce the corruption of Vladimir Putin and those around him, and his criminal involvement in the attacks that ravaged Moscow in the fall of 1999. A system of corruption and stifling of civil society witnessed first handly by Vladimir Kara-Murza. At the time, he was a historian and entered politics alongside Boris Nemtsov, Putin’s main opponent. At the same time, William Browder, a British businessman who made his fortune with the opening of Russia to capitalism, begins to wonder about the corruption that has been spreading since Vladimir Putin became president. He is expelled from Russia. His company’s assets are seized.
This documentary was produced by LITTLE BIG STORY and directed by Jennifer Deschamps. It was first released in 2023.
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