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Film about Litvinenko to Show in Russia
The documentary film Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case, also known as Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File, will be shown for the first time in Russia this evening, according to the website arthouse.ru. RIA Novosti reported that the film will be shown at the Sakharov Center in Moscow. The film, made by Andrey Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. It describes the final years of Litvinenko’s life.
Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko died in London on November 23, 2006. British doctors found traces of Polonium 210 in his body. The Crown Prosecution Service accused Russian businessman Andrey Lugovoi in the case, and Russia refused to extradite him, which led to a crisis in Russian-British relations. There have been suggestions in the press that Russian special services were responsible for Livinenko’s death.
Nekrasov received wide attention for his film Disbelief, about the explosion of apartment houses in Moscow in 1999.
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