To please his wife, Yuri tries to legitimize his business in trading timbers, but soon becomes frustrated with the difficulties and lower earnings of honest work. Valentine then tells Ava her husband is an arms dealer, prompting her to confront him. Yuri makes it back to his hotel and is surprised by Baptiste who coerces him into killing Simeon to avenge his uncle and eliminate his competition. Yuri escapes arrest by landing in a remote area and giving away all of his cargo to the locals. Yuri then expands his business to Africa, where he begins a business relationship with Andre Baptiste Sr., a ruthless dictator engaged in a brutal civil war in Liberia.ĭuring one flight into Africa in 2001, Yuri's plane is intercepted by Valentine and forced to land. However, his uncle is killed in a car bombing attack planted by Yuri's rival, arms dealer Simeon Weisz. He lures childhood crush Ava Fontaine to a false photo shoot, and they subsequently get married and have a son.įollowing the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yuri flies to Ukraine and illegally buys Russian tanks, guns, and munitions through his uncle, a former Soviet general who is overseeing the distribution of weapons to the newly-formed Ukrainian Army. Yuri quietly checks Vitaly into a drug rehabilitation clinic and continues his business alone.
Vitaly becomes addicted to cocaine after a Colombian drug lord forces the brothers to accept several kilos of cocaine to pay for an arms sale of numerous Glock 17 pistols. Valentine represents a unique threat to Yuri because he is after glory, not money, and thus cannot be bought off. As Yuri begins to prosper by exploiting his growing network of business connections, he comes to the attention of Interpol, in particular an idealistic agent named Jack Valentine, with whom he crosses paths on multiple occasions. The two brothers get their first big break during the 1982 Lebanon War, where they sell weapons to both Israeli and Lebanese troops despite witnessing the same weapons being used to commit war crimes and other atrocities.
After successfully completing his first sale of an Uzi sub machine gun to a local mobster, Yuri convinces his younger brother Vitaly to become his partner. Yuri muses that the constant need for weapons is similar to the human need for food and drink, thus he can make a fortune. The incident inspires him to go into the arms trade. In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov, the eldest son of a family of Ukrainian refugees, is visiting a Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, restaurant where he witnesses a Russian mobster kill two would-be assassins holding Kalashnikov rifles. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the issue of illicit arms trafficking by the international arms industry. The film was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, to positive reviews and grossed $72.6 million at the box office.Ĭage plays a fictional illegal arms dealer, inspired by the stories of several real-life arms dealers and smugglers, primarily Viktor Bout. Lord of War is a 2005 American crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, and co-produced by and starring Nicolas Cage.
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