My Friend Boris Nemtsov

(2015)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 212 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2015

Runtime: 70 мин

Country: Russia, Estonia

Director: Зося Родкевич

Cast: Boris Nemtsov, Илья Яшин, Алексей Навальный, Boris Nadezhdin

Plot

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel beds, protest rallies and office routine, train compartments and courtrooms, night walks and police vans – you have never seen any politician so close. This is a story how a journalist assignment turns into a genuine friendship.