BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A documentary on murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko is to be shown as a late entry at the Cannes film festival, organizers said on Thursday.

    The film, entitled "Rebellion. the Litvinenko case" by directors Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya will be part of the festival's official selection.

    Litvinenko died an agonizing death in a London hospital after ingesting a fatal dose of polonium 210, a radioactive isotope.

    In a letter dictated on his hospital deathbed, Litvinenko, who had acquired British citizenship weeks before he was poisoned, accused the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder.

    Moscow dismissed the accusation as ridiculous and denies its security services were involved in any way.

    British police have said they want to try former Russian spy Andrei Luguvoy for Litvinenko's murder, setting London on course for a diplomatic standoff with the Kremlin which is considered unlikely to agree to his extradition. 
 
    (Agencies)