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Can you explain why Browder would bury this film, and how he's done so?

• Tycho 8y ago
  The documentary was funded by a Norwegian production company and directed by an anti-Putin filmmaker. The initial intention was to work with Browder to tell his story and raise awareness of the fate of his lawyer, Magnitsky. But the director, having started sympathetically, did a U-turn halfway through production when he found problems with the story Browder was feeding them, and actually confronted Browder on camera. It seems that distribution and screening support for the film crumbled under threats of libel lawsuits. The Washington Post dismissed it as 'propaganda' in an editorial, although the curious thing is their editorial significantly misrepresents the content of the film. It could be, of course, that this film-maker is really in Putin's pocket. Or that he just wanted to get attention and didn't care about the truth. But it does seem that points raised in the documentary have been dismissed rather than addressed, and Browder's overall conduct strikes me as suspicious.