Movie Details:
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genres | Documentary |
Release date | September 7, 2024 |
Running time | 1hr 32min |
Directed by | Billy Corben |
Produced by | Billy Corben Alfred Spellman |
Cinematography by | Jonathan Franklin |
Edited by | Harris Mendheim Dave Myszewski |
Music by | Brian Robertson |
Visual Effects by | Anthony Rhoads |
Production Company | Rakontur Surprise Inside Universal Television Alternative Studios |
Distributor | MSNBC (United States, 2024) (TV) |
Cast & Characters:
- Tony Andre as Self
- Hunter Biden as Self
- Joseph Bondy as Self
- Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage)
- Stephen Colbert as Self (archive footage)
- Rudy Giuliani as Self – Seditionist (archive footage)
- Sean Hannity as Self – Propagandist (archive footage)
- Laura Ingraham as Self – Propagandist (archive footage)
- Rachel Maddow as Self (archive footage)
- David Muir as Self (archive footage)
- Lev Parnas as Self
- Svetlana Parnas as Self
- Eugene Robinson as Self (archive footage)
- Michael Sallah as Self
- Adam Schiff as Self (archive footage)
- John Solomon as Self (archive footage)
- Chuck Todd as Self (archive footage)
- Donald Trump as Self (archive footage)
Storyline:
Lev Parnas’ story is told specifically as it relates to his 2021 conviction for his role in illegal donations to the 2020 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and by association his work on behalf of Trump and Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to dig up dirt on Trump’s political opponent, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, most specifically with regard to the latter’s position on the Board of a Ukrainian energy company, whether that dirt existed or not. Much of the story is told directly from Lev’s own mouth and that of his voice of reason, his wife Svetlana Parnas. The early part of the story focuses on Lev’s activities as a hustler straddling the law, more often than not falling on the criminal side, and how he, a non-political person, came into Trump’s orbit and ultimately inner circle. The latter part of the story focuses on that work for Trump and Giuliani, Svetlana’s warnings to him that Lev was solely being used as a pawn, and being sucked into what he now understands is the cult of Trump. The epilogue to the story focuses on Lev’s feelings of his role in the downfall of the younger Biden, in large part collateral damage in Trump’s real target of the elder Biden.