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THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

LA MAGE DU KREMLIN

By Olivier ASSAYAS

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Thriller - Pre-Production 2024

BAFTA and Golden Globe Nominee Paul Dano stars alongside Academy Award ® Nominee Jude Law and Academy Award ® Winner Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge (Song to Song, The Sandman) in this fascinating dive into the perversity of modern politics.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Director(s)
- Olivier ASSAYAS
- Cast
- Paul DANO, Jude LAW, Alicia VIKANDER, Jeffrey WRIGHT, Tom STURRIDGE
- Synopsis
- After Russia, early 1990s. The USSR collapsed. A new world of possibilities opens up where freedom mingles with chaos. With his formidable and inscrutable mind, the young Vadim Baranov sets out to conquer it.
  First an avant-garde artist, then a TV producer crafting new national fantasies, he becomes the spin doctor of a promising member of the FSB – ex-KGB – soon to be known as “The Tsar”: Vladimir Putin. Working at the heart of Russian power, Baranov blurs truth with lies, the news with propaganda, directing the entire society like one great reality show. Only his love for the magnetic, free-minded Ksenia can turn him away from this dangerous game.
  After his resignation 15 years later, legends about Baranov multiplied, none of them able to disentangle the myth from the man. Until one night, ‘‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’’ decides to reveal his story and rake up the dark secrets of the regime he helped build.