Terror in Moscow (2003)

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On October 23, 2002, a Chechen group of rebels led by 25-year-old Movsar Barayev kidnapped a theater in central Moscow. Shortly after the second act of the popular Russian musical Nord Ost, the 700-strong crowd was geared up as masked gunmen leapt onto the stage, demanding an end to the Ten Years' War in Chechnya and the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops. Among the rebels were 19 Chechen women who had explosives strapped to their bodies. Dressed in black Saudi veils and chadors, they displayed a flag that read 'Death or freedom!' They threatened to blow themselves up if the theater was stormed by Russian troops. Surprisingly, the occupation was captured on video by the rebels themselves. After the liberation, a tape was found on the body of one of them. With the help of these archive images, recordings of tapped telephone conversations from the theater, mobile telephone conversations, and interviews with survivors, relatives, doctors and mediators, the documentary Terror in Moscow accurately reconstructs and evaluates the dramatic hostage situation.

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