“NEW YORK — Hard drives hidden around the country. Burner phones that couldn’t be traced. A safe house in Los Angeles. For the filmmakers behind “Icarus,” a cloak-and-dagger story of Russian Olympic doping, the themes of a documentary have for the past two years become the story of their lives. The Russian government has been increasingly trying to undermine — or, they fear, even outright capture — the film’s main character, the whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, prompting filmmakers to engage in improbable acts of high-stakes secrecy.”
