Directed by:
Vitaly ManskyScreenplay:
Vitaly ManskyCinematography:
Vitaly ManskyComposer:
Kārlis AuzānsCast:
Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Vitaly Mansky (narrator), Boris Yeltsin (a.f.), Sergey Mikhalkov, Nikita MikhalkovPlots(1)
Let’s go back to the last day of 1999 when the former head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ascended to the Russian presidency. The renowned documentarist’s new movie presents other protagonists as well, including Mikhail Gorbachev, but also Boris Yeltsin, who chose the ambitious 47-year-old politician as his successor. Ukrainian-born Vitaly Mansky based his film on witness accounts of the events that happened in the years following that fateful day in December, perhaps the most important moment in 21st century Russian history. The director rounds these out with his own fascinating perspective and with the unique, long-standing experience of a man whom only a movie camera separated from the upper echelons of power. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Vladimir Putin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Snowden (2016) - a.f.
Brexit (2019) (TV movie) - a.f.
Angel Has Fallen (2019) - a.f.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Vitaly Mansky (narrator)
Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin (a.f.)
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Enya: The Video Collection (2001) (music video) - a.f.
The Balkan Line (2019) - a.f.
The Jackal (1997)
Sergey Mikhalkov
Russian Empire
Nikita Mikhalkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)