Putin's Witnesses (2018)
Свидетели Путина
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.
- Date of release
- 2018-11-08
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (45)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- Vitaly Mansky
Casting
- Vitaly Mansky — Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage)
- Boris Nemtsov — Self - Politician (voice)
- Vladimir Putin — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Boris Yeltsin — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Naina Yeltsina — Self - Yeltsin's Wife (archive footage)
- Tatyana Yumasheva — Self - Yeltsin's Daughter / Politician (archive footage)
- Vera Dmitrievna Gurevich — Self - Putin's Teacher (archive footage)
- Anatoly Chubais — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Dmitry Medvedev — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Elena Okulova — Self - Yeltsin's Daughter (archive footage)
- Gleb Pavlovsky — Self - Politician (archive footage)
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