In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko - VPRO documentary

In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko - VPRO documentary - 2007

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It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence in London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance.
The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a politically difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War. Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya.
After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow, Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko. The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2007.
© VPRO Backlight January 2007
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Credits:
Directors: Jos de Putter and Masja Novikova
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.

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@vprodocumentary 4 жыл бұрын

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@Dobrovest 14 жыл бұрын

Дьявола предавать-можно всегда и везде!! Русский народ он не предал-он за него отстрадал!! Мир ему!!

@Troublesome2008 11 жыл бұрын

This was a very brave man. I don't think i could have done what he did. He could have been a powerful and rich man by now, but he chose to listen to his conscience. May he, Anna and all the other victims rest in peace.

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Alexander. There will be a time when ALL Russian people find out the truth. The truth always comes out.

@KodOdessa 14 жыл бұрын

He was a GREAT person

@siouxsie0679 8 жыл бұрын

It's heartbreaking to watch his father talk. I really hope those responsible can now be held to account for this crime.

@katharinakeinnachname6985 5 жыл бұрын

He was brave.

@user-xp9gx4wg5f 4 жыл бұрын

Кто из 2020

@blondboyyy 13 жыл бұрын

Im so sorry about Alexandr! :(( Dear Alexandr R.I.P.!

@bravo45 13 жыл бұрын

@Kessyrus Something about the Russian spirit has been very fascinating to me. I have followed/read Politkovskaya and Litvinenko for a few years, before their name became household. Real heroes in every sense of the word. Hero for Russia, hero for Chechnya, hero for humanity.

@MrFabolous1231 12 жыл бұрын

I highly doubt that Alexander Litvinenko will be forgotten about after all the man is in my Physical science book........I believe he didn't die in vain he spoke the truth and suffered the consequences he showed the entire globe that nothing stay's buried forever.

@pammyoneto 14 жыл бұрын

A very moving documentary.

@kakazinhu20 15 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Aleksander Litvinenko

@EdibMusovic 15 жыл бұрын

Sasha is not died. He is live! ("Inallahi ve inna ilejhi radziun")

@Maklavangitarist 5 жыл бұрын

Путину оскар за актёрскую игру!

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

Ага, в жопу

@DavidOwenWard 13 жыл бұрын

These people that kill and leave families to grieve like this, will soon get acquainted with a God that answers prayers of the slain.

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

Hero. RIP

@hamseganey4383 8 жыл бұрын

My allaah have mercy on his soul. and long live to his family

@dazmin100 12 жыл бұрын

Hero

@TallPoe 13 жыл бұрын

One MI5 officer accidentally posted his colleagues names on the internet with the wrong click, he now lives in exile. I hate that this happened, I mean what is the point in the end. If we are honest, there is no perfect civilization anyway. It is just unfortunate that after WW2 we are still not trusting of each other, but it isn't surprising considering the types of ppl we all have in our societies, that makes it hard to trust, but Sasha tried to be honest. God bless him for that.

@pdd60absorbed12 4 жыл бұрын

Putin did his own 9/11 in 1999. Now I know where the idea originated.....right, Vlad?

@eiccaapocalyptica 15 жыл бұрын

Boris didn't kill Sasha. You don't kill someone who saved your life. Thank you Marina, Tolik and all Sasha's friends and family for helping me through his final days, and now two years on, we come together to grieve again for the loss of our guiding light. Rest in peace Sasha, we miss you.

@Amatullah1013 12 жыл бұрын

Alhamduillah he returned to Allah (swt) as a Muslim may Allah have mercy on him and grant him Jannah and his killer will stand before Allah one day for this horror inshallah

@pirmininkas 16 жыл бұрын

i believe, that hes wasn't an angel, but he didn't cross the line!!!

@TallPoe 13 жыл бұрын

It isn't much different anywhere, power attracts certain types, which is why it is important to gather as much information on prospective operatives as possible, it is hard to cheat a psyche evaluation. And it is always a dangerous game from what I can tell. A British agent was killed recently, in a very unusual way... A details are kept out of the public domain. I will never know what is really going on behind the smoke and mirrors, I like Aleksander just hope we all sort it out one day.

@dicaprio20us 13 жыл бұрын

alhamdoulilah he died as a muslim ! i cried when i heard his father talk about him. may Allah have mercy on his soul , bless him and his family .

@gwengoad 16 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a warning! I have been known to look for the answers to dangerous questions!

@parsmohajer 13 жыл бұрын

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الحمد الله رب العالمین الرحمن الرحیم مالک یوم الدین ایاک نعبد و ایاک النستعین اهدنا الصراط المستقیم الصراط الذین انعمت علیهم غیرالمغضوب علیهم و الضالین May god bless your soul my brother. Judgement day will come for everyone.

@alarik36 15 жыл бұрын

I think that the reason that Litvinenko is so popular is that he looks like anybody in my country and people can identify with him. And it´s also another factor that makes Putin popular, he looks like a everydayman and people have sympathy for him. Hopefully after this the influence from old KGB will be removed and FSB reformed. Alex Goldfarb have been a true friend too him and the only one besides Zakajev and Berezovskij that havent beeneeee slsh

@TallPoe 13 жыл бұрын

I keep finding myself saying it, brilliance walks hand in hand with stupidity. What I am saying is do not have such high expectations or high esteem for others in high places, they are only human and make the same mistakes we all make, only some will kill to cover them up.

@TallPoe 13 жыл бұрын

Tread carefully through this world, we will find each other as they do, though more catiously

@guydecervens 16 жыл бұрын

Rahmatulahi aley, Inshallah shaheed! Brother Alexander we will meet again in Jinnah Inshallah

@alarik36 15 жыл бұрын

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

even hero's need saved

@SacreDz007 14 жыл бұрын

The world will never be perfect.

@dude3sasha 16 жыл бұрын

its not in the best interests of those in the know for the rest of us to have such information

@tamaradati 15 жыл бұрын

posmotrite na cinichnoe lico i viskazanie putina ! litvienko ne lazer ,boje moi,kak jal shto tak ludei kak litvienko i politkovskaia ,fakticheski bolshe net,rossiu praviat bidlo!

@TallPoe 13 жыл бұрын

To fight them you need only one weapon, knowledge. Get to know ever aspect that makes the mental state of a psychopath and sociopath, their reasoning is horrifically simple. But they can be caught and brought down, do not expect to kill them, just expose them in the media. That will finish them. And in the same breath do not smash everything in the system, as it takes a long time to create and is best not forgotten

@Caramuel 16 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the truth. Niech żyje Rosja.

@totalitaer. 14 жыл бұрын

My brother Markus Bott had been assassinated by the German BND which is the renamed GESTAPO after having been tortured during five and a half years. Because of our homepage linked on my channel.

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

Sasha

@dinitis 12 жыл бұрын

@privetgreetings It is nice that you can confuse a country with an organisation. I guess the people of former USSR, if they had the information about what KGB FSB and oligarchs were doing to the country,, would be as happy as you are.

@bravo45 13 жыл бұрын

@yurtaevi No no.. you got it wrong. Its not 'don't join if you can't take it', its ' stop the wrong no matter who is doing it'. But you may not have the guts to even understand this, let alone do it. Its easy to kill and blame others and then start a war and kill civilians, takes a real man to stand up and say no. R.I.P Sasha!!

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

buy stuff in stores

@23maior 14 жыл бұрын

@kutasovas Не трогай Святого Человека!

@MoscowMuslims 13 жыл бұрын

Aleksandr Shahid InhaAlla

@Sara161616 16 жыл бұрын

I think we already do.

@swizzybk1665 5 жыл бұрын

wow this is their 9/11

@masculinebuddha8762 7 жыл бұрын

"The difference is the gangsters had no official power but the officers did." Mr. Litvinenko was awful naïve for a KGB officer.

@gwengoad 16 жыл бұрын

When this occured I looked up plnomium 210 and One place on earth it is made is in Russia. It is 2000 or 20,000 times more radioactive than plutonium. And the only purchaser is the U.S. to fuel plutonium reactors anyone else? Is this right? I think I googled or wikipedia the info. Let Me Know

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

crazy hit in places crazy shouldn't be except it fix it

@aussieskiff 15 жыл бұрын

fourth protocol

@maesterkeimo5723 5 жыл бұрын

ha ha those excuses for explosives

@user-rt3rp2os3d 11 жыл бұрын

Litvinenko was a KGB agent who betrayed their homeland. This man was a hero)

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

You are kremlebot.

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

soon as see environment healthy an them they will be just fine

@alarik36 15 жыл бұрын

Let us not push Putin. We don´t know what could happen if we do. Let us hope that he realizes that this old KGB/FSB-style thinking is over and done with. Litvinenko was a good man and deserved to live and be happy.

@domrice9153 8 жыл бұрын

Lit had big mouth. Keep in mind, the report stresses that its conclusions are based on many witness opinions that “would not be admissible as evidence” in court. So the report relied on undisclosed secret evidence, which may have been fabricated and which cannot be challenged publicly and that in his report Sir Robert was not bound by strict procedural rules that apply to court hearings. Lastly by classifying in 2013 several documents which could have become key evidence in the investigation, Britain effectively brought the enquiry to a halt. I dont think people appreciate these facts

@Jumanji0028 14 жыл бұрын

I used google translater... my name in russian is Рори О'Тулом. That's crazy, there is no p in my name.... silly Google. Oh yeah, some of these comments are crazy, ease up on the dead guy

@davidperi 13 жыл бұрын

Uniting christianity & Islam?????

@nbkillan1982 14 жыл бұрын

@N9WJ7 Yea, right! You may not be ruled in a democratic way!!! Haven't deserve it!!!

@gwengoad 16 жыл бұрын

But no one answered who is making it and who is buying it? please

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

country's killing country's stuff love people living in ways just horrifying have military help build lumber yards factory's nice stuff do documented for all not just there to see they are not prop's feeling's are life

@johnSmith-my9yj 10 жыл бұрын

Read the 2007 report about Litvinenko by the "Conflict Studies Research Centre" which was part of the british ministry of defense and located at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. (Maybe the government didn't like the center contradicting their propaganda: the center was disbanded in 2010.) It's clear what they think about Litvinenko, quote: "Litvinenko was a one-man disinformation bureau, initially possibly guided by Berezovsky and then increasingly in pursuit of attention. "

@loccysmif 15 жыл бұрын

"istayswhite", what a wonderful nickname. Is it racist? Oh, and by the way. Are you really trying to defend the KGB?

@derricademocracy1860 6 жыл бұрын

an Russia

@ISSfreak08 16 жыл бұрын

"all want conflict with russia".....haha you´re such a muppet

@NiKee18 15 жыл бұрын

poor propaganda ! nobody can say who kills the man ! and im sure it was not the kgb :D

@wheelerrach1 8 жыл бұрын

Come on British Intelligence propaganda departement, is this really the best you can do?

@AceofDlamonds 7 жыл бұрын

Tell me where the falsehoods are? Where? Every defector has in one way or another commented on how corrupt the secret services and security services are in Russia. If the government allowed further inquiries into controversial scandals and events then I'd understand better, but Putin and his cronies have REPEATEDLY OPENLY blocked any investigation into such events as the Russian apartment bombings and refused to compensate the Beslan terrorist attack victims. so tell me more about why you're brushing this off as mere "propaganda'?

@AceofDlamonds 7 жыл бұрын

I don't believe Litvinenko on everything he says, but some points he makes ARE valid and worth further investigation. But the government always blocks investigations like that. Wonder why?

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

Rachiepaichm, come on , Kremlebot, it this the best argument you can make?

@862150403 14 жыл бұрын

he was a traitor... sorry :(

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

Traitor of the terrorist organisation is a saint

@costixx 8 жыл бұрын

Double agent , traitor to his country. Every secret service would terminate him. Case closed.

@ahmetturkmen0011 7 жыл бұрын

costixx he spoke the truth is what i care about

@joannerutledge1377 6 жыл бұрын

he was only wanting to help ppl,an tell the truth,poor guy died a horrible death.

@atlormerjo8830 6 жыл бұрын

costixx at the very least they warned him

@storiesfromthecommonwealth7063 5 жыл бұрын

You're an idiot. Case closed.

@AceofDlamonds 5 жыл бұрын

1999 apartment bombings...that is the biggest act of treason ever. Committed by the FSB

@ali_steering_wheels 6 жыл бұрын

предатель и иуда !!

@kmonkey8012 4 жыл бұрын

Кремлебот

@4luzj 8 жыл бұрын

нее, не убедили, Путин не одобряе столь тошнотворное видео... сыграли на чувствах не далекого старикана, отца - как-то подленько это не знаю хорошим ли, плохим был главный герой этого документального произведения, но после просмотра у меня осталось очень негативное впечатление обо всех его участниках да и так ли, стоит чтить память павших воинов ...