Navalny

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An absolute must watch if you want to understand what a thug is sitting in Kremlin. The all out war in Ukraine started from trying to kill innocent people like Alexey Navalny and many others.

Wonderful work, thanks for all. People from Russia thanks for creating this movie. Navalny - this is true , no lies. Go and watch. Don't believe low rating, it's work bot farm!

Saw it yesterday at Sundance. Rather good movie about great person. Really exciting to watch despite you know what happend after. Very emotional, be ready - especilally scenes with Yulya and Dasha. Now one of my favorite video about Russia - 100% truth, you must believe me. Free Navalny!

As "Navalny" (2022 release; 98 min) opens, Russian opposition leader has survived an attempt on his life, and after recovering in Germany, it is "January 17, 2021" and his is about to fly back to Moscow. We then go the "Three Years Earlier", as we see Navalny campaigning of ever bigger and enthusiastic crowds. At this point we are 10 min into the documentary. Couple of comments: this is the second documentary by Canadian director Daniel Roher, whose prior film "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band" received much acclaim. Here Roher tackles a very different topic: how one man (and his very small entourage) takes on Putin and the Kremlin regime of thugs and murderers. Much of the documentary focuses on the buildup of the attempted murder (in August, 2020) and his return to Moscow 5 months later. Roher seems to have gotten unfettered access, and we get tons of never before seen footage of what day-to-day life is like for someone who could be killed any day by the Kremlin. Navalny's wife is featured extensively as well. Perhaps most stunningly is how a Bulgarian data journalist from Bellingcast pieces together what exactly happened in the leadup to August, 2020. It's like a political thriller movie, except (as Navalny keeps reminding us), "this actually happened". The courage that Navalny shows throughout the film is beyond words. True leadership in the highest order. In other words: the exact opposite of Putin and yes, Trump. PLEASE NOTE: the movie's overall rating showing here on IMDB of just 5.5/10 is grossly misleading. The movie has been rated 10,000 times, undoubtedly very negatively by countless Russian trolls and Trumpist trolls (because, you know, they HATE democracy and they LOVE a good ol' fashioned murderous dictator)., and of course without actually having seen the film. In contrast, all 30 written reviews submitted to date here on IMDb rate this documentary 9/10 or 10/10, and the movie is currently rated 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, all for very good reason. "Navalny" premiered last night on CNN, and will soon also start streaming on HBO Max. If you want to get a true understanding of what kind of leadership and courage it takes to stand up against Putin, I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion. *UPDATE* As I fully expected, "Navaly" is nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, and I am already going on record that it will also WIN the Oscar. There are several other outstanding documentaries nominated for the Oscar, including "Fire of Love" and "All The Beauty and the Bloodshed", but in the end, "Navalny" resonates more than ever (with Russia's Putin in all all-out, if losing, war against Ukraine).

I don't like Navalny very much, but what they do to with him is terrible. Thanks to the makers, we must talking about Navalny and people needs to remind what Putin does with him and other politician like Nemtcov so that people do not have illusions about the country in which they live. Just look at the reviews here. All these 1/10 was written by the Kremlin bots for money. The Kremlin hires opinion-forming agencies and spends billions of rubles on it. The shame! While people are raising money via paid SMS for an operation for seriously ill children, they are spending these funds to maintain Putin's rating. Putin probably is the richest man on the planet. And he brought to power many of his classmates, friends, children and relatives. Now they are the richest people in Russia... In one of the most corruption country on the Earth... And they are ready to kill to keep the stolen!

In this documentary, you will see the story of a corruption fighter who was tried to be killed and then imprisoned by those same corrupt officials. Now Navalny has been declared a terrorist in Russia. The man who took people to the streets with the Russian flag and read the Constitution. A dramatic story filmed with fantastic accuracy.

It doesn't matter if you know who's Navalny is, but after watching this documentary you will have no disillusions about Putin's regime. The film exposes and eviscerates methods used in Putin's Russia to silent and persecute the opposition.

The documentary portrays the real events that are more gripping and terrifying than the plot of the most fictional political crime dramas out there. The significance of this documentary to history can already be noticed if you look at the statistics of the IMDb rating for this film. The movie hasn't been released yet to the broad audience but you can already see how the infamous Russian bots try to drop down the overall score of the film. They were ordered to do so because of only one thing. After seeing this documentary you will never ever going to treat Putin as a powerful leader of Russia. You will see a cowardly man who accidentally came to power. You will see a man who, with all the secret services and government agencies that are under his command, couldn't succeed in a simple task - eliminating a Russian citizen in his own territory. Not only that. You will see how the survived citizen was able to investigate his own poisoning while being outside of the country and prank one of the agents who were assigned to poison him. Freedom to Alexey Navalny!