Documentary Films - Competition 2018 / Svideteli Putina / Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic 2018
On December 31, 1999 Vladimir Putin ascended to the president’s chair in Russia. In his latest picture renowned documentarist Vitaly Mansky draws on witness accounts of the events that happened in the years following that fateful day. He then rounds it out with his own fascinating perspective and with the longtime unique experience of a man whom only a movie camera separated from upper echelon politics.
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.
Karel Och
102 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Vitaly Mansky
/ Music Karlis Auzans
/ Editor Gunta Ikere
/ Producer Natalia Manskaya
/ Production Studio Vertov
/ Coproduction Golden Egg Production, Hypermarket Film
/ Sales Deckert Distribution
Vitaly Mansky (b. 1963, Lviv, Ukraine, USSR). Selected filmography: Yevreyskoe schaste (1991), Putin. Leap Year (2001), Anatomy of t.A.T.u. (2003), Virginity (2008), Dawn/Sunset. Dalai Lama 14, (2008), Patria o muerte (2011), Pipeline (2013), Under the Sun (2015), Close Relations, (2016), Putin’s Witnesses (2018)
Deckert Distribution
Gottschedstr. 18, 04109, Leipzig
Germany
Phone: +49 341 215 6638
E-mail: [email protected]
Vitaly Mansky
Festival Organizer, Film Director, Producer
Gabriela Bussmann
Producer
Galina Stepanova
Producer
Natalia Manskaia
Producer
Kateřina Kovářová
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