A poisoning survivor turns his own recovery into an investigation, and the investigation turns into a decision about whether to go home at all. Navalny is a 2022 documentary from director Daniel Roher that follows Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in the months after a nerve-agent attack nearly killed him.
What is Navalny about?
The film picks up as Navalny is still recovering from being poisoned with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020, an attack he barely survived. Rather than treating that recovery as the end of the story, the documentary follows him and a small circle of allies as they dig into what actually happened to him and who was behind it. What they uncover reshapes Navalny's understanding of the attempt on his life, and the film builds toward the moment he has to decide whether to return to Russia knowing exactly what he now knows. It is less a portrait of a single event than a record of a man choosing to walk back toward the danger he only just escaped.
About the cast
Alexey Navalny anchors the film as its subject, with family members Yulia Navalnaya, Dasha Navalnaya and Zakhar Navalny appearing alongside him throughout. Maria Pevchikh, Christo Grozev, Leonid Volkov and Kira Yarmysh round out the circle of people shown working closely with him during this period, giving the documentary a lived-in, behind-the-scenes texture rather than a distant retrospective feel.
Context & significance
Directed by Daniel Roher, Navalny is an American-produced documentary that arrives without dramatization or reenactment; the events are recent enough, and the people involved cooperative enough, that the film can work directly from its subjects rather than staged recreation. Its ninety-eight-minute runtime keeps the focus tight on the poisoning, the recovery and the investigation that follows, rather than attempting a full biography of Navalny's political career. For K-Time viewers who follow documentary filmmaking about real political events, it sits alongside other nonfiction titles in the catalogue that deal with recent history as it was still unfolding.
Watching Navalny on Ktime
Navalny is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login — no separate download or hardware needed, just sign in and press play. The page itself, including this background, is readable without logging in, so you can read up on the film before deciding to watch. K-Time's Farsi-language interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to browse the wider documentary catalogue in their own language even when a specific title, like this one, is in English with no Persian dub or subtitles yet listed.