Magnitsky Act –- Behind the Scenes, The

Synopsis

What started as a docu-drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, became an investigation of a massive hoax and an unprecedented international cover-up. The Magnitsky Case in the version of the financier Bill Browder became the basis for laws and sanctions targeting Russian police and other officials, and for the claims that Putin personally had received a share of the millions looted from the Russian people. The film’s director and a Kremlin critic, Andrei Nekrasov discovers that a narrative defining Western Russia policies is riddled with falsehooods.

Credits

Director:
Andrei Nekrasov

Producer:
Torstein Grude. Co-producers: Pertti Veijaleinen, Venla Hellstedt, Peter Engel. Executive producers: Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit

Editor:
Philipp Gromov

Original Music:
Karsten Fundal

Written by:
Andrei Nekrasov and Torstein Grude

DOP:
Tore Vollan, Torstein Grude and Joona Pettersson

Cast

Evgeniy Lunchenko
Gennadii Popenko
Alexander Berezhok
Yekaterina Bashkina and several others. Featuring as theirselves: Andrei Nekrasov
Bill Browder
Marieluise Beck
Andreas Gross
Pavel Karpov
Pavel Lapshov
Andrey Pavlov
Nataliya Magnitskaya.

Production details

Original title
The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes

Year
2016

Length
152 min, 125 min

Language
English, Russian, German, French

Subtitles
English

Format
DCP

Production company
Piraya Film. Co-production: Illume and Wingman Media

Production country
Norway, Finland, Denmark

Sales/Distribution
Festival distribution: The Norwegian Film Institute.

Website
http://magnitskyact.com/

Awards & Festivals

Awards:

2016 Special Commendation – Prix Europa TV Documentary

2017 Main Award, Student Jury – Festival international Signes de Nuit, Paris, France

2018 Night Award, Festival Internacional Signos de la Noche – Tucumán, Argentina

The Signs Award, 16th International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand

Festivals:

2016 Moscow International Film Festival, Russia
2016 Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, Sweden
2016 Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
2016 Kapittel Film, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, Finland

2017 Eurodok, Oslo, Norway
2017 Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2017 Nordic/Docs, Fredrikstad, Norway
2017 The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway
2017 International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France

2018 Festival Internacional Signos de la Noche, Tucumán, Argentina
2018 International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand
2018, Telepolis Salon, Munich, Germany

For updated/complete festivals/awards list, see: www.nfi.no