Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case

Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (Russian: Бунт: Де́ло Литвине́нко) is a 2007 Russian documentary film covering the death of ex-Russian spy and dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London, United Kingdom in 2006. It was directed by Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov and written by Nekrasov and producer Olga Konskaya. The film covers the flight from Russia and subsequent murder of Litvinenko, a controversial Russian dissident livi... more

Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (Russian: Бунт: Де́ло Литвине́нко) is a 2007 Russian documentary film covering the death of ex-Russian spy and dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London, United Kingdom in 2006. It was directed by Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov and written by Nekrasov and producer Olga Konskaya. The film covers the flight from Russia and subsequent murder of Litvinenko, a controversial Russian dissident living in London. Litvinenko was murdered with the radioactive poison Polonium-210 in 2006, triggering a souring in relations between Russia and Britain (and the West in general). The film includes interviews with Litvinenko, which, according to the makers shows him "explaining the reasons of his rebellion and detailing the rise of the police state in Russia in the past decade." They claim that his defection and "investigation of the alleged involvement of [the] FSB in the 1999 bombings of apartment houses in Moscow, which was blamed on the... less