Synopsis
An intimate portrait of Boris Nemtsov by a journalist who became his friend. Deputy Prime Minister and heir apparent to President Yeltsin and then Putin’s unyielding opponent, this leader of the Russian opposition was assassinated, right next to the Kremlin, in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel rooms, demonstrations and office work, train compartments and courtrooms, late-night walks and police vans… you’ve never been so close to a politician.
A word from Tënk
This film, a tribute to this Russian opponent, touched us because it takes the form of an intimate testimony: that of the friendship between Boris Nemtsov and the director, who worked together on this film until the former’s death. Its raw character and hand-held camerawork, give its subject all its power. By following Nemstov's daily life, which intertwines political and personal life, this film is utterly singular: in that it allows us to discover a Russian society that is far from common perception and, above all, to hear the voice of an oppositionist minority who, guided by their democratic ideals, risk their lives under the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin. It is also a reminder to our collective conscience that freedom and democracy are precious and that we must continue to defend them everywhere in the world, including in France.
Guilhem Brouillet
Programmer at DOC-Cévennes
