Svideteli Putina
Svideteli Putina
Svědkové Putinovi
Directed by:
Vitaly ManskyScreenplay:
Vitaly ManskyCinematography:
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Kārlis AuzānsCast:
Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Vitaly Mansky (narrator), Boris Yeltsin (a.f.), Sergey Mikhalkov, Nikita MikhalkovPlots(1)
Let’s go back to the last day of 1999 when the former head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ascended to the Russian presidency. The renowned documentarist’s new movie presents other protagonists as well, including Mikhail Gorbachev, but also Boris Yeltsin, who chose the ambitious 47-year-old politician as his successor. Ukrainian-born Vitaly Mansky based his film on witness accounts of the events that happened in the years following that fateful day in December, perhaps the most important moment in 21st century Russian history. The director rounds these out with his own fascinating perspective and with the unique, long-standing experience of a man whom only a movie camera separated from the upper echelons of power. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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He’s such an asshole that you can’t even make an interesting documentary about him. There were a couple of scenes that caught my attention, for example the one with the new (old) national anthem, which I would have much preferred to see a separate documentary about, but otherwise it was mostly an extremely drawn-out bore.
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An interesting behind-the-scenes look at Putin's candidacy and election process, and into Boris Yeltsin's privacy. The actual records from Putin's first year in office are not as telling and they are, above all, shallow - including moments when Putin talks to the director and speaks directly to the camera. The documentary is presented as anti-Putin from the beginning, but of course only what Putin allowed the filmmakers to shoot appears in it.
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