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.

“I found its thundering journey through several decades of recent Russian and world history revealing and (perhaps more importantly) enormously entertaining.” ~Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine (Vulture)

“Despite being overwritten in places, the screenplay is the real star of the show in The Wizard of the Kremlin. Assayas’ film is catnip for followers of political machinations…” ~Cody Dericks, Next Best Picture

“In what could easily have been a banana skin of a role, Law is surprisingly sure-footed. He captures the Russian president with metronomic precision – his mannerisms, his cunning, his smirks and scowls.” ~Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent