Daniel Roher Documentary Thriller ‘Navalny’ Is This Year’s Sundance Secret Screening
deadline.comThis year’s Sundance Film Festival may be online, but that doesn’t mean they can’t program a secret screening.Just added, Daniel Roher’s documentary thriller Navalny will make its world premiere as the tenth and final title in the U.S.
Documentary Competition section on Jan. 25, 6PM Mountain time.Navalny focuses on Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.
In the documentary, Roher had unparalleled access to Navalny and his inner circle.In August 2020, a plane traveling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing.
One of its passengers, Navalny, was deathly ill. After he was taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin, German authorities confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government.
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