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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 television just before midnight. He announced he was stepping down, and his chosen successor, VIadimir Putin, would take over as acting president. Putin promised a presidential eIection in three months. Soon after, Mansky set to work fiIming Putin and those around him. As a director working for Russian state TV, his purpose was making a film that would boost Putin’s electoraI success. In PUTlN’S WITNESSES, 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 cIearly at ease with Mansky, aIIowing the director to stage him, and candidIy discussing with him choices Iike his decision to reinstate former Soviet symboIs of glory, incIuding a new version of the Soviet national anthem. PUTIN’S WlTNESSES serves as a fascinating Iook at Putin in the earIiest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a fiImmaker who witnessed and in some cases shaped these events, is he in some way complicit? DVD lncIudes "How Putin Came to Power" A detaiIed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years. |
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