The Notorious Mr. Bout

The Notorious Mr. Bout (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tony Gerber
Maxim Pozdorovkin

Written By:
Tony Gerber
Maxim Pozdorovkin

Actors:
Alla Bout ..... Herself
Sergei Bout ..... Himself
Viktor Bout ..... Himself
Wim Brown ..... Himself
Albert Dayan ..... Himself
Dirk Draulans ..... Himself
Timur Edikhanov ..... Himself
Slava Grichine ..... Himself
Louis Milione ..... Himself
Matt Potter ..... Himself
Brian Johnson Thomas ..... Himself
Gennadi Vengerov ..... English voice of Victor Bou
Robert Zachariasiewicz ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Viktor Bout was a Russian entrepreneur, a war profiteer, an aviation magnate, an arms smuggler and, strangest of all, an amateur filmmaker. Until three days prior to his 2008 arrest on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, Bout kept the camera running, documenting a life spent in the gray areas of international law. Dubbed the 'merchant of death'; and portrayed by Nicolas Cage in LORD OF WAR, Viktor Bout can justifiably be called the world's most famous arms dealer. With unprecedented access to Bout's home movies and DEA surveillance material gathered during the sting operation to bring him down, The Notorious Mr. Bout is a portrait of a life much mythologized but little understood.

When he was arrested in 2008 in Thailand as a result of a U.S. government sting operation, the career of internationally known arms smuggler Viktor Bout came to a decisive end. Veiled by the obscurity of post-Soviet Russia, Bout had built an empire of aerial delivery so vast he was called "the merchant of death" and was even the subject of a Hollywood film. In sharp contrast to the widely known, super-villain persona, however, was another Bout: a philosophical businessman who simply enjoyed travel, his work, his family, and filming it all with his video camera.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 18 April, 2015.