Vladimir Putin
German Politicians Condemn Elon Musk’s Support of Far-Right, Compare Him to Vladimir Putin
Government and opposition leaders call the tech billionaire's op-ed backing the anti-immigrant AfD party election interference: "Elon Musk is attempting nothing different than Vladimir Putin."
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Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Scores Theatrical Release in Russia (Exclusive)
Producers made only modest changes to the acclaimed Donald Trump biopic to win clearance for the movie to open on 800 screens across Putin's Russia.
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How ‘Putin’ Will Test Audience Appetite for AI
The biopic from Polish director Besaleel and featuring an AI-generated Vladimir Putin will be shopped to international distributors in Cannes next week.
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‘Maria’s Silence’ Director Talks Showbiz Pals of Dictators: “They Know How to Pretend”
Davis Simanis’ Stalin-era drama about a real-life Latvian star, Maria Leiko, who saw herself as untouchable before she was murdered by Russian secret police, is world premiering in Berlin.
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Alexei Navalny, the Fiercest Foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dies at 47
The man who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests was the subject of a 2022 documentary by Daniel Roher that won an Oscar.
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AFM: The Russian President Is A Doddering But Dangerous Dictator in ‘Putin’ (Exclusive Trailer)
The first international production from Polish director Besaleel, aka Patryk Vega, depicts Vladimir Putin more as a gangster boss than a world leader.
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Before He Turned on Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin Made Hollywood-Style Propaganda Films to Sell His War
The former chief of the multi-tentacled Wagner group, who is believed to have died in a plane crash, didn’t just send his army of mercenaries to the Ukrainian front lines. He was also at the vanguard of Putin’s effort to counter Western cultural dominance, and using movies to do it.
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Polish Box Office Champ Takes on Russian Leader in Thriller ‘Putin’ (Exclusive Trailer)
Patryk Vega, who now goes by the name Besaleel, says his first international production will explore "Putin's mind...and the Russian soul" and is conceived as an artistic protest against the "Russian dictator and the war in Ukraine."
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Oliver Stone on New Documentary ‘Nuclear’ and Why the U.S. Needs to Work With Russia to Solve the Climate Crisis
The veteran filmmaker insists his latest doc is not political: "The future of the human race is more important than all this bullshit."
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Russian Dissident Gains Entry to Canada for Toronto Film Festival Premiere
Anastasia Shevchenko nabbed a Canadian visa just hours before a short film about her, 'Anastasia,' is set to screen.
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