The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Power was the plan. Putin was the consequence.”

6.5(130)20262h 16m

Drama

In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape life behind the Iron Curtain, using violence and deception to change the world forever.

Director

Olivier Assayas

Revenue

$7.6M

Cast

Paul Dano

Vadim Baranov

Jude Law

Vladimir Putin

Alicia Vikander

Ksenia

Tom Sturridge

Dmitri Sidorov

Will Keen

Boris Berezovsky

Jeffrey Wright

Rowland

Andrei Zayats

Igor Sechine

Kaspars Kambala

Alexander Zaldostanov

Andris Keišs

Yevgeny Prigozhin

George Sogis

Boris Yeltsin

Magne-Håvard Brekke

Eduard Limonov

Emmanuel Carrère

Edouard Vercambre

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Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

16d ago

6.0

I suppose to be fair to Paul Dano, he does have something of the look of an apparatchik to him, but otherwise he really fails to deliver anything of the complexities or menace in this depiction of the rise of Vladimir Putin. OK, so Jude Law doesn't exactly convince in that latter role, either, but at least he does resemble his man! "Vadim" (Dano) is an aspiring film-maker of no great skill who end...