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  1. Dec 16, 2022 · Lord of War stars Nicolas Cage as the international gunrunner Yuri Orlov. While Orlov is fictional, he's based on a real person - Viktor Bout.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Viktor_BoutViktor Bout - Wikipedia

    The 2005 film Lord of War is purportedly based on allegations about Bout's personal history and black-market activities. In 2007, Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah published a book about Bout: Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.

  4. Dec 9, 2022 · Viktor Bout comic-book supervillain, the Lord of War. Or Viktor Bout, an innocent patsy, set up in some hypocritical conspiracy by dastardly Western powers. Either, we realised, would have...

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  5. Apr 6, 2012 · A DEFIANT Russian arms dealer dubbed the Merchant of Death for his history of arming violent dictators and regimes has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, far short of the life term prosecutors sought for his conviction on terrorism charges that grew from a US sting operation.

  6. Dec 13, 2022 · In Lord of War, Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas Cage, is based on a well-known real-life international munitions dealer. During Lord of War’s bizarre opening, Yuri Orlov tells viewers, “There are over 550 million guns in international circulation.”.

  7. Dec 8, 2022 · Bout, whose life story inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie 'Lord of War,' was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S.

  8. Dec 14, 2022 · Is “Lord Of War” Based On A True Story? The character Yuri Orlov from Lord of War is based on a number of actual contemporary international arms traffickers, most notably the notorious Viktor Bout.

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