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Navalny
Why this pick
Like Citizen K, it follows a Russian opposition figure confronting state power, but with an unusually immediate investigative-thriller momentum and intimate access.
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MOVIE2019 2h 6m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A portrait of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch and ally of President Vladimir Putin's, who became an unlikely political dissident and risked everything to blow the whistle on the threat the Russian leader poses to democracy.
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