Alexei Navalny
Birthday: Born in 1976-06-04 in Butyn, Moscowskaya oblast, USSR (Russia)
Deathday: 2024-02-16
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist and a political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexei Navalny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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вДудь
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Yury Dud interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople....
Предатели
Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events that have led us to the present day....
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The Man Putin Couldn't Kill
Character: Self
The incredible story of the Russian plot to kill politician Alexei Navalny - by poisoning his underpants. Plus, what will happen next in Navalny and Putin's dangerous feud?...
Putin Forever?
Character: Self
Russian Federation, May 6, 2012. On the eve of the ceremony of inauguration of Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term, the police brutally repressed a march of protest over the lack of freedom existing in the nation. Some people believed that this demonstration would be the beginning of a peaceful revolution, but it was the day when silence and fear won the game. Realize what happens when a person has too much power in his hands....
People Who Differ
Character: Self (archive footage)
It's 2018. Russia has just elected its President. A new, old President. Nothing will change during the next six years, and, at first glance, you just have to accept it. This is the way people think, whilst heroes feel otherwise. Russia has many heroes. This film is about them....
The Witness
Character: Self (archive footage)
Kursk railway station, cold train. Night road to the city of Pokrov. Colony N2 is located there, where another trial against Navalny is underway. Ilya Yashin goes to see him as a defense witness, who communicates with fellow travelers and talks about prison, about life and about the war....
Navalny
Character: Self
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home....
F@ck This Job
Character: Self (archive footage)
In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth....
Parasites
Character: Self
A documentary investigation by Alexey Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation about corruption of editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan and film director Tigran Keosayan....
Becoming Navalny
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
A portrait of Alexei Navalny (1976), the staunchest opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, severely poisoned in 2020, arrested in 2021 and died on February 16, 2024 in a Siberian prison camp under unclear circumstances....
Putin's Bears - The Most Dangerous Hackers in the World
Character: Self (archive footage)
They call themselves Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear or Voodoo Bear. Elite units of the Russian secret services are hidden behind these code names. They are among the most dangerous hackers in the world. The bears were already in the computer of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015, interfered in the US election campaign in 2016 and are currently influencing the war in Ukraine. The makers of the successful YouTube channel “Simplicissimus” in co-production with funk and SWR are back and show the destructi...
Age of Disagreement
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The film portrays a new generation of politically active Russians who worked and volunteered for Navalny's 2018 presidential campaign....
Semyon's Mother
Character: Self (archive footage)
On June 12, Vladivostok schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky came to a rally organized by Alexei Navalny. There, police officers approached him and took him to the police station. After that, Semyon was сhastised at his school and was told that he was putting an end to his future....
I am Nobody
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Alexey Navalny began his election campaign in the regions of Russia with a trip to Murmansk. Thousands of citizens came to his rally, and in the rain. This is the success of local activists who organized the rally and selflessly campaigned. Alexander Rastorguyev and Dmitry Kuvaldin spent several days together with the coordinator of Navalny's Murmansk headquarters, Violetta Grudina , an LGBT activist who was attacked because of her sexual orientation....
Winter, Go Away!
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Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign....
The Russian Soul
Character: Himself
Russia is a highly developed, wired, and educated nation, but endures third-world levels of corruption and a repressive, autocratic government. Many Russians explain this paradox by citing the Russian soul, a unique national mindset, born out of their turbulent history that wants dictatorship. Is that possible, or are free speech and democracy universal values?...
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
Character: Self
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary bulletins,” which were published daily online, allowed for wide-ranging content; in the feature film version, however, the filmmakers focused solely on the members of various opposition groups. Nevertheless, the work’s neutral position remain...
Chaika
Character: Self
Documentary film-investigation of financial frauds of persons close to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika....
My Friend Boris Nemtsov
Character: Himself
An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel beds, protest rallies and office routine, train compartments and courtrooms, night walks and police vans – you have never seen any politician so close. This is a story how a journalist assignment turns into a genuine friendship....
Nemtsov
Character: Self
A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin....
The Man Who Was Too Free
Character: Self
A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow in February of 2015....
Don't Call Him Dimon
Character: Self
A 2017 Russian documentary film about alleged corruption by Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. The film claims that Dmitry Medvedev has embezzled an estimated $1.2 billion....
Citizen K
Character: Self
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement....
Electing Russia
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Schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky, Vladivostok. Students Egor Chernyuk and Oleg Alexeev, Kaliningrad. Entrepreneur Viktor Barmin, Yekaterinburg. Activist Violetta Grudina, Murmansk. Minibus driver Vladimir Semenov, Astrakhan. What unites these people? All of them are activists of regional headquarters created for the campaign of Alexey Navalny, who announced his self-nomination for the post of President of the Russian Federation. And all of them are the heroes of the film "Electing Russia."...
Putin's Palace: History of World's Largest Bribe
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After surviving poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent, Alexey Navalny made his most important film. Putin's Palace: History of World's Largest Bribe is about the palace near Gelendzhik that presumably belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It also shows vineyards, corruption schemes and more....
Rastorhuev
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On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films, forming a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain....
Crimean Bridge. Stolen with Love!
Character: Self - narrator
A documentary investigation by Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation about corruption and "theft" of Margarita Simonyan and Tigran Keosayan during the filming of the film "Crimean Bridge. Made with Love!"...
Age Of Disagreement. 2024
Character: Himself
On the eve of the 2018 presidential election, Andrey Loshak released the series "The Age of Disagreement", about young supporters of Alexei Navalny who participated in his election campaign. In the sequel to the series, filmed ahead of the next ‘elections,’ the dramatic changes in the lives of activists over the past six years are chronicled. These activists once dreamed, alongside Navalny, of a beautiful Russia of the future. The filming was almost complete when news of the politician’s death b...