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
Yuri Orlov Yuri Orlov Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (, born 13 August 1924 in Moscow) is a nuclear physicist and human rights activist, a former Soviet dissident, a founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Soviet Amnesty International group, and currently Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords as a founder of human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Yuri Orlov was born into a working-class family on 13 August 1924 and grew up in a village near Moscow.