The Wizard of the Kremlin

In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape life behind the Iron Curtain, using violence and deception to change the world forever.

Cast

Paul Dano

as Vadim Baranov

Jude Law

as Vladimir Putin

Alicia Vikander

as Ksenia

Tom Sturridge

as Dmitri Sidorov

Will Keen

as Boris Berezovsky

Jeffrey Wright

as Rowland

Andrei Zayats

as Igor Sechine

Kaspars Kambala

as Alexander Zaldostanov

Andris Keišs

as Yevgeny Prigozhin

George Sogis

as Boris Yeltsin

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 a...

Brent Marchant

Political leaders often don’t rise to that level of power without the strategic scripting concocted for them by the little-known kingmakers behind them. And that’s what this fact-based, though satirically fictional, political thriller about the rise of Russian president Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) see...

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