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Lord of War is a 2005 film written and directed by Andrew Niccol 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 the antiheroic protagonist, an illegal arms dealer with a similarity to Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. The movie begins with Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) (no relation to Yuri Orlov who is a human rights activist in real life), standing in a sea of spent shell casings matter-of-factly stating, “There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do you arm the other eleven?” The opening credits follow the life of a 7.62×39 mm cartridge: from a munitions assembly line in Odessa, Ukraine, to various arms dealing intermediaries, and ending in the head of a small African boy. The rest of the movie is told in flashback, starting in 1982 and ending in the…This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Lord of War