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Navalny review – extraordinary documentary about the attempt to kill Putin’s rival
Daniel Roher directs a riveting account of how the charismatic Russian opposition leader narrowly survived being poisoned by a nerve agent
In August 2020, Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and general thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin, was taken gravely ill on a flight home to Moscow from Siberia. An emergency landing saved him; Navalny was hospitalised and treated for what turned out to be poisoning with a nerve agent. He fled to Germany to recuperate in exile, and through an undercover investigation that could have been lifted from a political thriller, he and his team gradually pieced together the facts behind the assassination attempt that nearly claimed his life.
Documentary film-maker Daniel Roher’s tenacious camera follows throughout. It’s a genuinely exciting piece of storytelling, a propulsive real-life quest for truth driven by ingenious tech-geeks and the disarming force of Navalny’s personality.
Navalny is available in Curzon cinemas on 12 April for a special one-day event and will be available on demand followed by a UK wide release on 15 April
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