The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026)

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By release date (January 21), is this the start of theatrical distribution, or is the film coming out in numbers right away?

The movie is bullshit. Don't waste your time.

)) another pretentious propaganda about the "terrible" and "terrible" Putin)) I'm afraid to even imagine what kind of game there will be))) Jude Law was probably useful because of complete idleness or lack of money, it's a pity.

And who, interestingly, is the prototype of this Baranov in real life?

Give me a hint where to view the pliz

A set of stamps and cranberries. Absolutely nothing new for the Russian audience. Perhaps it was worth delving into a certain period and moment of V.V.'s rule, rather than galloping through the entire history of new Russia.

The film is a hat, but I'm shocked by what kind of similar actor was chosen for the role of Sechin. A strange decision: Khodorkovsky and Surkov's last name was changed, but Berezovsky and others were not.

The movie is great!!

Complete disappointment. I was waiting for sharp political satire, and I got a low-budget cranberry, you can still forgive films made in the 90s, but in 2025, with all the technology, the Internet, and living witnesses of events, it's so pathetic to convey the atmosphere of the scene and time, you just have to try. I'll make a reservation right away - I watched it in the original language, perhaps translation and normal localization could smooth out the impression a little. There are a lot of inappropriate shots, text, some small and often completely unnecessary details that simply destroy the credibility of the entire film and no matter how much you struggle with the idea that maybe everything will be more or less in the plot, but this avalanche of stereotypes and cringe just won't let go. Pirozki with salmon... Gumovsky skating rink with decorations from the 2020s for some reason is being passed off as Moscow of the 90s ... all the lettering is in Russian and only the girls at the casting for Russian TV suddenly write their names on the plates in English... I won't say anything about famous quotes from press conferences. It turned out to be a very low-grade film for a foreign audience (not in terms of being stupid, but in terms of being unfamiliar with the real context), I'm really sorry for the time spent on it.

It's very sad that the rating is deliberately underestimated, the film is really worth watching in order to develop at least some critical thinking.

It's a frankly weak film: on the one hand, it seems like all the external historical milestones are in place, and the interview with Larry King, and Kursk, and the house bombings, and even the New Year's Eve celebration with soldiers.
But at the same time, all this external stuff is embedded in some kind of attempt to understand what was really going on inside the Kremlin, what kind of dialogues someone was having with whom, and then there is absolutely some kind of fiction that is obvious to anyone who lived at least a little bit at that time.
Well, Baranov is some kind of completely collective image of Surkov, Voloshin and Yumashev, here he advises how to behave, and here he rubs with Limonov, and here he listens to Putin's speeches about the oligarch Sidorov (Khodorkovsky).
In general, you can watch a fantasy on the topic "how Russians came to live like this", but no more.

Cranberries were never more plentiful even in the 90s... And laughter and sin

I wonder if cinema is good as an adaptation of Empoli's novel, rather than as a documentary.
Yes, suddenly, it was based on fiction.

It's a terrible movie, not even worthy of comments. But I'll say a few words anyway - how disgusting and fake Jude Law's acting is. Before that, I had a better opinion of him. I also associated Paul Dano with films of at least high quality and interesting. After this rubbish story, piled up according to Hollywood political and dramatic cliches, you realize that this is an ordinary "cranberry", "custom-made" and convenient for the "slow-thinking" cinema viewer. Whoever understood understood. In the trash...

Hat, I wasted my time.

I watched a movie. And you know, Russia is like a Hollywood dream setting: bears, balalaika and knee-deep mud. And the 90s are shown so cliched that sometimes you want to laugh. Jude Law is trying his best, but all this pretense overrides even his charisma. The Western view of our history is as if through a cloudy glass.