Russian spy film at Cannes
2007-05-24 14:08
Cannes - A documentary on Russian
dissident Alexander Litvinenko, whose murder last year caused a
growing rift between Moscow and the West, is to be shown as a
late entry at the Cannes film festival, organisers said.
The film, entitled Rebellion. the Litvinenko case by
directors Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya will be part of the
festival's official selection.
Litvinenko died an agonising death in a London hospital
after ingesting a fatal dose of polonium 210, a radioactive
isotope.
In a letter dictated on his hospital deathbed, Litvinenko,
who had acquired British citizenship weeks before he was
poisoned, accused the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir
Putin of his murder.
Diplomatic standoff
Moscow dismissed the accusation as ridiculous and denies
that its security services were involved in any way.
British police have said they want to try former Russian spy
Andrei Luguvoy for his murder, setting London on course for a
diplomatic standoff with the Kremlin which is considered
unlikely to agree to his extradition.