Sundance

Market Road Films, in association with BBC Storyville and A Third Party Production, is pleased to announce the world premiere of New York filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. A 20-year chronicle of the remarkable rise and fall of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker, the US-Russian co-production will screen in the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Viktor Bout was a Russian entrepreneur, 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 Nicholas 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, filmmakers Gerber (FULL BATTLE RATTLE) and Pozdorovkin (PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER) paint an evocative portrait of a life much mythologized but little understood.

Sundance Festival Screenings

Friday, Jan. 17, 8:30pm – Prospector Square Theatre
PRESS: Saturday, Jan. 18, 9:30am – Holiday Village Cinema 3 Saturday, Jan. 18, 9:45pm – Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Sunday, Jan. 19, 1:00pm – Redstone Cinema 2
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 9:00am – Temple Theatre
Thursday, Jan. 23, 12:00pm – Egyptian Theatre

Attending: Directors Tony Gerber
and Maxim Pozdorovkin (Jan. 16-27)

92 min. No US distributor.

Images & press kit: 
www.marketroadfilms.com/projects/non-fiction/bout/
(pw: BOUT)