The Wizard of the Kremlin

Paul Dano, Jude Law, and Alicia Vikander star in Olivier Assayas’ timely, epic film about the political games in Russia over the past four decades.

In the post-Soviet 1990s – marked by punk, poetry, and performance art – a young intellectual with a background in theater and reality TV (Paul Dano) gets a job as a spin doctor for Vladimir Putin. In the corridors of power, he helps shape the new Russia and blur the lines between truth and lies. A captivating drama adapted from the bestseller by Giuliano da Empoli.