An Unknown Substance
During the imprisonment of Vladimir Kara-Murza, his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza mounts a global campaign to bring him home and ensure that his voice will not be silenced.
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a prominent Russian opposition politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who survived two near-fatal poisonings before being sentenced to 25 years in prison after speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This documentary short follows his wife, Evgenia Kara-Murza, during his imprisonment as she mounts a global campaign to bring him home and ensure that his voice would not be silenced.
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