Vladimir Putin demands absolute fealty to the Russian state, and woe to anyone who defies him. Oil executive Ravil Maganov, whose company had criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine, took a fata…
“We’ve kept the film very tightly under wraps for the last four and a half years that we were working on it, really, which began almost immediately afterwas released,” Fogel tells Deadline. “We kept it under wraps largely due to security concerns.”
Fogel could communicate with Rodchenkov periodically over the internet, and see him in person, but only on rare occasions . Capturing Rodchenkov’s life day to day became the responsibility of cinematographer Jake Swantko, who describes it as “sort of like this embed process.” Swantko came away impressed with Rodchenkov’s capacity to maintain a positive outlook.
In a bit of subterfuge worthy of James Bond, Rodchenkov succeeded in sneaking his diaries out of Russia. The entries contain a wealth of information detailing Russia’s longstanding efforts to elude anti-doping measures. For instance, Rodchenkov recounts that before the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Russia dispatched a ship to South Korea that carried a device necessary for its doping maneuvers. The machine was ingeniously disguised to resemble an espresso maker.
Those schemes were overseen by Russia’s Ministry of Sport, Rodchenkov says, and he insists the mandate to cheat came from even higher up, from Putin himself. His lawyer appeared on Capitol Hill in 2018, saying Rodchenkov was compelled to go along with the doping program.“Let me be clear about this,” attorney Jim Walden testified, “Dr. Rodchenkov had no choice but to participate in this system if he wanted to stay alive.
In other words, Dr. Rodchenkov’s life is far from safe. Toward the end of the film, he takes further steps to protect himself, moves so extreme they mean he may never lay eyes on his family again, nor on the filmmakers.
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