'You couldn't make this story up': Navalny director Daniel Roher on the creation of his Oscar-winning documentary

, which won best documentary at this year’s awards. A few weeks earlier, the film also snagged best documentary at the BAFTA awards, adding to its already long list of accolades and critical acclaim. Roher’s film is an investigative look into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is currently in solitary confinement in Russia. In his acceptance speech, Roher dedicated the award to Navalny and other political prisoners across the globe.

His is an extraordinary story; you couldn’t make it up. It has everything. The stakes are high. The characters are charismatic, and they look like movie stars. The plot twists and turns in ways you never could have anticipated. It has a larger-than-life quality, but it’s all real. Urgent, high-stakes stories like this are the reason I got into filmmaking.You had unprecedented access to the Russian opposition leader.

We knew that, by genre, it was a thriller. It was also thrilling to make the movie, and I think that our ambition was to play into the trope. Navalny says in the film, “Make it a thriller,” and so, abiding by his request, we introduced a meta-narrative into the film. Here I am, making a film about a politician, and not just any politician—a politician who has a brilliant mastery of the media. We as filmmakers had to acknowledge that dimension of the project.

When you were directing and editing the film, what was the main thing you wanted viewers to get from it?

Navalny, the fringe far-right Islamophobe.

friendly reminder that Alexei Navalny is a centrist russian ultranationalist who wants to deport and strip the rights of all minorities, immigrants and unpure russians, and has politically allied himself with neonazis and other ultranationalists who share similar ideologies ☺️

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