Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #89 Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko Files

#89.Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko Files

Director/Writer: Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya
Producer/Production Company: Dreamscanner
Distributor: Kino International

The Gist: Russian-made documentary film looks at the last four years of the plutonium poisoned Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko who died an agonizing death — followed live by the world’s media — in November after ingesting radioactive Polonium-210, slipped into his tea during a meeting in London where he had been living in exile.

Fact: Nekrasov’s controversial doc was a (very) last minute addition to the 07 edition of the Cannes film festival and was also in the Toronto film fest line-up.

See It: Did Time Magazine put the trigger man (Vlad Putin) on the cover?  Despite already knowing the victims and the accused, you won’t need to bother watching adventure spy game flicks after this true life spy game docu. Though this story has received tons of media attention, there are new files and dossiers worth re-opening, examining and questioning.

Release Date/Status?: Kino is looking at a possible limited theater April release.