The Notorious Mr. Bout
Kaleidoscope Entertainment is pleased to announce the UK release of The Notorious Mr. Bout. Known to many as 'The Merchant of Death' The Notorious Mr. Bout weaves twenty years of home movies with extensive first person narrative and high profile interviews to form a startling account of how Russian entrepreneur, Viktor Bout became one of the world’s most infamous felons.
The Notorious Mr. Bout is the fascinating story that follows Viktor Bout, 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 grey areas of international law.
Dubbed the 'Merchant of Death' and portrayed by Nicholas Cage in Hollywood’s 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 mythologised but little understood.
The Notorious Mr. Bout is directed by Tony Gerber (Full Battle Rattle) and the director of Sundance winner Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Maxim Pozdorovkin.
The Notorious Mr. Bout is released 15th August.