The pitch here is that Fogel started out making a Morgan Spurlock film and ended up with a Laura Poitras movie. Whatever the case may be, he certainly stumbled into one hell of a story. An experimentation with performance enhancing drugs connected Fogel with Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a Russian scientist who has the goods on the country’s doping program. Putin will steer clear, but look for a Netflix, Amazon, or some deep-pocketed streaming service to make a splash and pick up the most topical film of the festival.”
