"Kremlin's Wizard": A famous movie critic told what a movie about Putin came out

Brian Wiener, a well -known film critic who once was a jury of the Moscow Film Festival, watched the movie "The Kremlin's Wizard" at the Venetian Film Festival, and until the date of the world premiere was not determined, shared his impressions for Daily Mail, noting Putin now has. The Kremlin's Wizard is a film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name Juliano da Empoli French director Olivier Assaias.

It is a story about how political power in Russia developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how it was in the hands of a former KGB agent from St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin. The story is told on behalf of the "slightly fictional character" named Vadim Baranov played by Paul Dano. It is believed that his prototype was the real Putin political technologist Vladislav Surkov.

The film was built on an interview with an American journalist who came to Baranov for a cottage to talk about a long -dead satirist, and eventually finds a "golden vein" and learns how Putin, who we know, was made from Putin's unobtrusive KGBist KGBist.

The film critic recalls that when he was in Moscow, his "charming" translator said that although his friends and rejoiced in the end of communism and the USSR, it caused disappointment with his parents and their generation, whose "inviolable social, cultural and political beliefs. The Kremlin's magician makes the same remark.

Baranov explains that his father, who headed the Soviet Institute of Culture, realized that his days were coming to an end, as soon as Mikhail Gorbachev was handed a glass of milk in live. Milk, not vodka. In the sense of his father, it was a metaphor of derusification of Russia, "-writes Wiener. But for Baranov new Russia is new opportunities. He becomes a theatrical director, then a television producer.

And the audience shows all the nightmare shine of the 1990s, when the first Russian oligarchs appeared. Hope ":" He is a modest guy, he will like, "he says, noting that his protege is not" genius "but will cope. Recall that in 2013 Berezovsky, who is in exile, was found dead in his house near Ascot. As Putin is replaced by Putin, as a king. Putin began the Second Chechen War, invaded the Crimea and was obsessed with the 2014 Winter Olympics at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Returning from the G20 summit, he is indignant that he treated him as if he was the leader of some "minor" country like Finland ", - writes Wiener, noting that a new movie, of course, is not worth studying history, but he looks like a" fascinating thriller ". He ordered the tanks in Ukraine in 2022, "he did not cope with his task. " Barack's presidential campaign in 2008. Paris. France's literary prize, only one vote of voting.