Genre: Thriller
Running time: 2h25
By Olivier Assayas | By Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère
With Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander
Synopsis
All audiences
Russia in the 1990s. The USSR is collapsing.
In the tumult of a country under reconstruction, a young man of formidable intelligence, Vadim Baranov, charts his course. First an artist, then a reality TV producer, he becomes the unofficial adviser to a former KGB agent destined for absolute power, the future 'Tsar' Vladimir Putin.
Plunged into the heart of the system, Baranov becomes a central cog in the new Russia, shaping discourse, images and perceptions.
But one presence escapes his control: Ksenia, a free and elusive woman, embodies a possible escape, far from the logic of influence and domination.
Fifteen years later, after having withdrawn into silence, Baranov agrees to speak.
What he reveals blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, conviction and strategy.
The Kremlin Magician is a plunge into the arcanes of power, a tale in which every word conceals a flaw.
Running time: 2h25
By Olivier Assayas | By Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère
With Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander
Synopsis
All audiences
Russia in the 1990s. The USSR is collapsing.
In the tumult of a country under reconstruction, a young man of formidable intelligence, Vadim Baranov, charts his course. First an artist, then a reality TV producer, he becomes the unofficial adviser to a former KGB agent destined for absolute power, the future 'Tsar' Vladimir Putin.
Plunged into the heart of the system, Baranov becomes a central cog in the new Russia, shaping discourse, images and perceptions.
But one presence escapes his control: Ksenia, a free and elusive woman, embodies a possible escape, far from the logic of influence and domination.
Fifteen years later, after having withdrawn into silence, Baranov agrees to speak.
What he reveals blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, conviction and strategy.
The Kremlin Magician is a plunge into the arcanes of power, a tale in which every word conceals a flaw.
