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N A V A L N Y
(2022)
Production Company: CNN Films, HBO
Max, Fishbowl Films, RaeFilm Studios, Cottage M
Released by Fathom Events, Warner Bros.
Release date: 11 April
2022
Director Daniel Roher
Producers: Diane Becker, Shane
Boris, Melanie Miller & Odessa Rae
Music Composed by Marius De Vries,
Matt Robertson & Anna Drubich
Orchestrated by Jeff Tinsley
Recorded by Justin Moshkevich
Orchestra Contracted by Mark Robertson
Music Preparation Jeff Tinsley
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| Synopsis: Centers on events around
the August 2020 assassination attempt on former Russian
opposition leader Alexei Navalny by poisoning, the
domestic flight he on from Siberia to Moscow needing to
make an emergency landing upon he falling ill aboard. He
was ultimately transferred from a Russian hospital to
Germany both for further fear for his life if left in
Russia without protection, and that any evidence of the
poisoning being destroyed by the state in the initial
and continuing suspicions that the attempt was either
backed or directed by the Kremlin under President
Vladimir Putin which they/he have always denied, Putin
who even refuses to utter Navalny's name when questioned
about him or the attempt. After the fact, Navalny states
his surprise in believing that he was safer from such
state attempts to kill him the more recognition he
gained i.e. being too recognizable a figure. Beyond his
staff and his loyal family, he ends up being secretly
surrounded by
a small group of investigative journalists including Bulgarian Christo Grozev with
Bellingcat and Russian Maria Pevchikh with the Anti-Corruption Foundation who knew
that the state would not investigate the poisoning. What
to do with their findings culminates with Navalny's
highly publicized return to Moscow on January 17, 2021
and how to take advantage of that return to release their findings
to have the greatest impact.
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A N O T E F R O
M T H E C O M P O S E
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We
started this project at the beginning of 2021, right after
Navalny was arrested in Moscow, as you can see in the movie. I
went to protest and, of course, was following the whole story.
I’m from Russia, so the whole situation’s very, very close to
me. It really hurts, what’s going on in my homeland. A couple
days after he was arrested, my agent reached out to me and
said that the filmmakers were looking for a composer. Because
this is such a dangerous subject in Russia, they were asking
if I was okay doing it, because obviously it can bring some
consequences. I said, “Of course I will do it.” It was just me
as a composer first. I [began] writing some themes and they
were still working with the edit. [Then] in Russia, they made
a new law saying that, basically, everything somehow connected
to Navalny is a terrorist organization. If you were somehow
connected to the story, you could be imprisoned. I reached out
to the producers and said, “Guys, I’m sorry. My family is in
Russia, I’m still very connected, I go there very often. I
can’t be in the credits. It’s totally not possible.” I stepped
out of the project for a while. Then they reached out to me and said, “Marius de
Vries agreed to also work on the project, but since you’re
not going to be in the credits, you can do a
couple scenes here or there.” I wrote themes already and many
of the producers and editors felt that they were major themes of the movie. The first
third or half of the movie is mostly my music, and then it’s
Marius’ stuff, but some cues we integrated motifs together. We tried to make it
sound like one, unique written soundtrack. So, we ended up working [together, the]
three of us, toward the end of the film, but I couldn’t
put my name in the end credits. That’s kind of a
political story. |
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W A T E R T O W E R M U S
I C ( - D O
W N L O A D O N L Y - )
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01. Hello (Anna Drubich) (1:43)
02. A Genuine Challenger (Marius De
Vries, Anna Drubich, Matt Robertson) (4:01)
03. Omsk
(Marius De Vries, Anna Drubich, Matt Robertson)
(3:07)
04. The World Expects Answers (Anna Drubich)
(1:42)
05. Domestic Assassination
Machine (Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson)
(2:53)
06. A
Horse And A Donkey (Anna Drubich) (2:36)
07. Juggling (Marius De
Vries, Matt Robertson) (2:41)
08. The Plot Thickens
(Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson) (4:03)
09. See You
Tomorrow (Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson) (1:08)
10.
Leaving The Black Forest (Marius De Vries, Matt
Robertson) (3:02)
11. Press Conference (Anna
Drubich) (1:42)
12. An Amazing
Pass (Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson) (3:02)
13.
Primitive Politics (Marius De Vries, Matt Robertson)
(2:01)
14. Leap Of Faith (Marius De Vries, Matt
Robertson) (5:17)
15. Arrivals / Yulia (Marius De
Vries, Matt Robertson) (6:27)
16. Message (Marius De
Vries, Matt Robertson)
(2:51)
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Release date: 24 April
2022
Total Time: 48:06 (A.D.:
14:48) |
| Purchase links: Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, iTunes, Spotify
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