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 Alexandrovich Orlov Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (Yurij, Juriy, Jurii) (; June 12, 1893 — October 2, 1966) — Russian and Soviet zoologist, paleontologist. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1960, corresponding member since 1953). His father was Alexander Fedorovich Orlov (1855–1940), member of Narodnaya Volya, official of Udel department of Vologda and Arkhangelskls Governorates. His mother was Vera Pavlovna Tumarkin (1862–1899), from Bessarabian Jewish merchants family, the older sister of Anna Tumarkin. She served as an otolaryngology doctor at St. Petersburg's Conservatory. Orlov studied zoology and anatomy at the State University of St. Petersburg under A.A. Zavarzin. He