Daniel Roher
Navalny
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Navalny

Navalny

Daniel Roher

2022
98 min.
United States
Russian and English
Subtitles: Catalan and English

An unprecedented portrait of Aleksei Navalny, Putin's main opponent, who in 2020 was poisoned in Siberia. A fast-paced, shocking and revealing thriller.

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Show
Direction
Daniel Roher
Executive Production
Amy Entelis, Courtney Sexton, Maria Pevchikh
Production
Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Shane Boris
Editing
Langdon Page, Maya Daisy Hawke
Music
Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson
Cinematography
Felix Angermaier, Nikita Pavlov, Niki Waltl
Synopsis

In August 2020, Aleksei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's main opponent, slipped into a coma after being poisoned in Siberia. Filmmaker Daniel Roher's exclusive access to Navalny's innermost circle shows his recovery in Germany and the subsequent struggle to investigate who instructed the poisoning. Navalny is currently imprisoned in the Pokrov penal colony, 100 kilometres from Moscow. Amnesty International has reported the violation of his rights during the express judicial process that sentenced him to two and a half years in prison. Roher's camera captures moments of impact that reveal Navalny's courage to take personal risks and fight all the way in trying to expose the corruption of Putin's government. A fast-paced, shocking and revealing spy thriller.

Screening and talk with the director of the film

Interview with the director

About the direction
Daniel Roher

Daniel Roher

Director

Daniel Roher’s films have taken him to every corner of the globe, from Japan to Uganda to Nunavut an...

Awards and festivals

Sundance FF
USA, 2022
Reviews

"Shocking documentary (...) ' Navalny' is a feast of increasingly incredible details and a window into a movement against a state of increasingly blatant and denigrating lies (...)".

— Adrian Horton, The Guardian

"Essential (...) There are things worth dying for, as this moving documentary makes clear, and Navalny knows he may still have to(...)".

— Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

"Disturbing film that is as sad as it is pulsating (...) Filming concluded in January 2021 (...) but the documentary remains a snapshot absolutely sinister of today's terrifying global moment".

— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter
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