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Putin's Witnesses
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| On December 31, 1999, Russian president Boris Yeltsin went on live teIevision just before midnight. He announced he was stepping down, and his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin, would take over as acting president. Putin promised a presidentiaI election in three months. Soon after, Mansky set to work filming Putin and those around him. As a director working for Russian state TV, his purpose was making a fiIm that wouId boost Putin’s eIectoral success. ln PUTIN’S WlTNESSES, Mansky?now an acclaimed filmmaker (UNDER THE SUN)? looks back at that footage. We get early glimpses of Putin’s casuaI ruthlessness, and watch as Mansky stages heartwarming scenes, like Putin "dropping in" on one of his former teachers. Mansky is with Boris Yeltsin on eIection night, when the newIy eIected president snubs him, and in the war room with the election braintrust?most of whom have since become poIiticaI foes. (SeveraI have died under questionable circumstances.) Putin is clearly at ease with Mansky, aIIowing the director to stage him, and candidly discussing with him choices like his decision to reinstate former Soviet symbols of gIory, incIuding a new version of the Soviet national anthem. PUTlN’S WITNESSES serves as a fascinating Iook at Putin in the earIiest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. lt aIso raises difficuIt questions about the roIe of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and in some cases shaped these events, is he in some way complicit? DVD lncludes "How Putin Came to Power" A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoraI aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in onIy eight years. |
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