A creeping black spot on a darkening globe suffers some degree of illumination — not voluntarily, of course — in “The Rise of Wagner.” Benoit Bringer’s documentary about the Russian private army of…
’s documentary about the Russian private army of mercenaries relies on a mix of news reports, human rights experts and sometimes anonymous witnesses to expose Wagner Group’s shadowy involvement in various conflicts over the last decade. It’s a damning if necessarily rather fragmented view, since the organization remains cloaked in secrecy, its own government continuing to deny affiliation.
Despite their relatively small number, they have an outsized impact, with one UN advisor here saying that whenever they’re detected, human rights abuses follow. Those run a gamut from torture and rape to civilian massacres and political assassinations, with Ukraine President Zelenskyy purportedly targeted several times.
To provide some narrowed human-interest focus, Bringer emphasizes a handful of cases where sufficient hard evidence has surfaced to pursue criminal charges in one forum or another. Mohammed Taha al-Ismail was a Syrian father of four led by poverty to seek work abroad; when he returned, he was dubiously accused of treason and forced into military service.
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