Top billed cast

1. 

   Paul Dano

   Vadim Baranov

2. 

   Jude Law

   Vladimir Putin

3. 

   Alicia Vikander

   Ksenia

4. 

   Tom Sturridge

   Dmitri Sidorov

5. 

   Will Keen

   Boris Berezovsky

6. 

   Jeffrey Wright

   Rowland

7. 

   Andrei Zayats

   Igor Sechine

8. 

   Kaspars Kambala

   Alexander Zaldostanov

9. 

   Andris Keišs

   Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-04-23

I suppose to be fair to Paul Dano, he does have something of the look of an apparatchik to him, but otherwise he really fails to deliver anything of the complexities or menace in this depiction of the rise of Vladimir Putin. OK, so Jude Law doesn't exactly convince in that latter role, either, but at least he does resemble his man! "Vadim" (Dano) is an aspiring film-maker of no great skill who ends up working as a television producer just as Boris Yeltsin is beginning to lose his grip. His benefactor, billionaire Boris Berezovsky (Will Keen) convinces him that the next man for the job of Presi...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$8,440,584.00

Keywords

• new york city
• london, england
• based on novel or book
• capitalism
• soviet union
• stockholm, sweden
• historical fiction
• period drama
• rise to power
• moscow, russia
• literary adaptation
• vladimir putin
• political figure
• 1990s
• russia
• 2000s
• russian federation
• 2010s
• complicity
• collapse of soviet union
• fictionalized history
• political drama
• olympics
• black comedy