:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/362V4RTKYVH5ZGHJ5MC7AQ3FJM.jpg "'Navalny': HBO Max's Oscar-winning documentary about imprisoned opposition leader in Russia 1")
Former Russian presidential candidate Alexei Navalnyis the biggest figure of opposition to the regime of Vladimir Poutine In Russia. He is currently sentenced to nine years in prison in his country, but most recently, in August 2020, he was poisoned during a plane trip from Siberia to Moscow. The documentary Navalnycreated in HBO Max and Oscar winner, deals with this event in the life of the politician, as well as his recovery and the investigation that took place to discover who tried to assassinate him. Was it a plan devised by the Kremlin?
Suffering from mortal pain, Navalny he collapsed in the middle of his air transfer inside a commercial plane. At that time, some videos on social media showed how the crew and passengers tried to help him without really knowing what was happening to him, but the news only broke when the viralization of these scenes reached the newsrooms of the whole world.
As if it were a thriller brought back to reality, the documentary narration brings together the events, the investigation and the analysis which would point out the culprits of the assassination attempt. It’s no surprise that the 45-year-old lawyer was one of the Putin government’s most hated individuals, but could the need to silence him forever really go that far? This man’s threat to power is greater than you might think.
A first-person interview with Alexey Navalny
Through the testimonies of the same Alexei Navalny, their relatives and the witnesses who attended the events, as well as the recordings of the moment, this title aims to offer an exact chronology of what happened. Likewise, the clues to this plot to end his life, the articles relating the facts and the journalistic investigation by Bellingcat and CNN are reviewed.
According to the service’s official synopsis streaming“, relates the investigation into the scandalous assassination attempt on the leader of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalnyand his current struggle for democratic reform”.
Navalny is directed by Daniel Roher and produced by Odessa Rae of RaeFilm Studios; and Diane Becker and Melanie Miller of Fishbowl Films. Executive producers are Shane Boris of Cottage M. Amy Entelis; Courtney Sexton of CNN Films; and Maria Pevchikh, from the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Langdon Page and Maya Daisy Hawke led the editorial team.
The documentary project had its world premiere at Sundance Dinner Festival of 2022 and won the Oscar for best documentary in the installment of 2023. Available on HBO Max.
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