The Wizard of the Kremlin
Le Mage du Kremlin
Power was the plan. Putin was the consequence.
Overview
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.
- Revenue
- $7,606,890
- Production
- Curiosa Films, Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma, Tribune Pictures, LB Entertainment, Jeff Rice Films, Pierce Capital Entertainment
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Cast
Paul Dano
Vadim Baranov
Jude Law
Vladimir Putin
Alicia Vikander
Ksenia
Tom Sturridge
Dmitri Sidorov
Will Keen
Boris Berezovsky
Jeffrey Wright
Rowland
Andrei Zayats
Igor Sechine
Kaspars Kambala
Alexander Zaldostanov
Andris Keišs
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Magne-Håvard Brekke
Eduard Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère
Edouard Vercambre
Elisa Lasowski
Marylène
Marija Linarte
Anastasia Chekova
Egons Dombrovskis
St. Petersburg Friend
Dārta Daneviča
TV Producer #1
Anta Aizupe
TV Producer #2
Mārcis Lācis
Executive #1
Ivars Auzins
Executive #2
Rodion Kuzmin
Executive #3
Tom J. Benedict
Media-Most #1
Crew
- Director
- Olivier Assayas
- Writers
- Olivier Assayas,Emmanuel Carrère
- Cinematography
- Yorick Le Saux
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CinemaSerf
April 23, 2026
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 benef…
Brent Marchant
May 12, 2026
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) seeks to chronicle. The film tells the story of professional political fixer Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), who rises from art school student to television producer to “the Czar’s” righthand man, doing whate…