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Link to In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko documentary
Documentary Description
It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks
turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions:
Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service,
died in his place of residence London last November, after having been
poisoned with a radioactive substance. The search for the possible
perpetrators lead to a political difficult situation that reminded us
of the dark days of the Cold War. Three years ago Aleksander
Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It
is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and
imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service,
about his experience in Chechnya, and in particular about the series of
bomb attacks on Russian territory that led to the seizure of power by
Vladimir Putin. According to Litvinenko those attacks were the work of
the secret service. After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006,
Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow. Marina Litvinenko is writing a
book about her husband. The book will be published in May 2007 and the
film rights have already been sold to Columbia Pictures. In this unique
interview, she speaks about how they first met, how they fled to
England and she speaks about Aleksander´s death agony. We also see
Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's
closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir
Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko.
The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.
