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Wife Of Putin's Critic Wows Oscar Audience After Documentary On Him Wins
“Navalny,” a movie that examines the poisoning of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, on Sunday gained the Oscar for first-class documentary feature. Canadian director Daniel Roher`s film seems on the political upward push of Navalny, the maximum outstanding opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok on a journey to Siberia in 2020 and the following probe.
“There’s one man or woman who could not be with us right here tonight — Alexei Navalny, the chief of the Russian opposition, who stays in solitary confinement for what he calls — I need to ensure we get his phrases precisely right –Vladimir Putin’s unjust battle of aggression in Ukraine, ” Roher informed the target target market as he commonplace the golden statuette.
The 46-year-antique Navalny, who has been held for the beyond years at a maximum-safety jail outdoor Moscow after an embezzlement conviction, has accused Putin of being in the back of the poisoning attack. “My husband is in jail only for telling the truth. My husband is in jail only for protecting democracy,” Yulia Navalnaya said.
The movie, which premiered on the Sundance movie competition in January 2022, gained a BAFTA final month. It bested “All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love” and “A House Made of Splinters.”
