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But even if you’re familiar with the facts, “Icarus” casts the depth of deception with an immediacy that’s often astounding, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing a central role. Rodchenkov’s tale of how Russian doping specialists and intelligence agents switched tainted urine samples with clean urine made headlines last year. Once he resigns from the Moscow lab and Fogel helps him flee to the the States, damning evidence in hand, “Icarus” shifts into high gear. In fact, when filmmaker Bryan Fogel first approached Impact Partners, a social-justice documentary funder based out of New York, with the concept for Icarus (.

(Given his background, maybe exercising good judgment isn’t one of his strong suits.) But as investigators close in on him, Rodchenkov’s motivation is crystal-clear - self-preservation. We never understand why Rodchenkov initially agreed to help Fogel. We see Fogel as surprised as anybody when he, along with the rest of the world, learns what Rodchenkov did in Sochi. Each year we release six to eight feature documentaries to theatrical audiences. and Russia was under investigation by international doping authorities who. Led by longtime president Jonathan Miller, we work with independent producers worldwide to release 30-50 new films a year, and represent a collection of well over 1,000 titles. 'Icarus' won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and by the time it came out, Rodchenkov was in hiding in the U.S. But the unwieldiness is part and parcel of the movie’s ragged appeal. Since 1978, Icarus Films has been a leading distributor of documentary films in North America. The pivot from gonzo mischief to global thriller, however, remains bumpy, and much of the early material - Fogel repeatedly injecting himself with drugs, lots of footage of dogs - feels indulgent.