Lord of War Lord of War Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, and co-produced by and starring Nicolas Cage. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, with the DVD following on January 17, 2006 and the Blu-ray Disc on July 27, 2006. Cage plays an illegal arms dealer, inspired by the stories of several real-life arms dealers and smugglers. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the arms trafficking by the international arms industry. In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage), the
Vladimir Nikolayevich Orlov Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, First Deputy Interior Minister, were discharged from their posts, and four days later, the Tsar took supreme command of the Russian armies fighting on the Eastern Front of the First World War. As "London Times" correspondent Robert Wilton put it, Orlov, exiled by events subsequent to the Russian revolution of 1917, was buried in Paris, France. Vladimir Nikolayevich Orlov Prince Vladimir Nikolayevich Orlov (Dec. 31, 1868-Aug. 29, 1927), one of the Orlov (family), was one of Tsar Nicholas II's closest advisors, and between 1906 and 1915 headed the Tsar's military cabinet. Orlov, who bore the nickname "Fat Orlov",