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 Chulyukin Yuri Chulyukin Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin (; 1929 — 1987) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film actor, songwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979). Member of the CPSU since 1956. He is best known for directing the comedy films "The Girls" and "The Unamenables". Yuri Chulyukin, graduated in 1956 from VGIK, where he studied with Grigory Alexandrov and Mikhail Chiaureli, worked briefly in television (took about three dozen essays). In 1958 Chulyukin he began work at Mosfilm. He was married (1957-1966) to the actress Natalya Kustinskaya. Since 1982 Yuri Chulyukin taught at VGIK. Repeatedly he served as a writer and