More than a decade ago, the Wagner Group began its rise as the world’s most feared mercenary army — quietly, in corners of the globe far from mainstream attention. Dissident Russian journalist Katya was one of the few people chasing it, determined to expose what she called “a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.”
Hell’s Army, the new documentary from Oscar nominee and three-time Emmy winner Richard Rowley (Dirty Wars, Kingdom of Silence), goes inside that world. The film world premiered Monday at the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), where Rowley followed Katya and Denis — an exiled police detective — as they trace the origins of the mercenary group and its enigmatic leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, from his rise to his death in a fiery plane crash.
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