The Man Who Was Too Free
A documentary biopic of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Boris Nemtsov got murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.
Vera Krichevskaya
Director
A documentary biopic of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Boris Nemtsov got murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.
In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station (Dozhd) in Putin’s Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts ready to demand justice. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth, for which she relentlessly fights.
After the father’s death, the daughter of one of the forefathers of modern Russian democracy, Ksenia Sobchak, tries to understand the 18 years of his political fate. Together with the director Vera Krichevskaya she gives the word to Anatoli Sobchak’s colleagues and opponents, gets acquainted with the criminal case which annulled his career, and tries to find an answer to the question what Anatoly Sobchak’s fate would be in today’s Russia.