The first official trailer for Olivier Assayas‘ The Wizard of the Kremlin has been released, and more of Jude Law‘s uncanny transformation into Russian leader Vladimir Putin is revealed.
The political drama charts the rise of Putin into a global player with the help of scheming spin doctor Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano playing a character based on Vladislav Surkov, widely considered the “grey cardinal” of Russian politics). The trailer depicts Baranov convincing Putin of his cynical approach to geopolitics, with the goal being to “sow chaos” and “build the myth that the Russians and controlling the modern world.”
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Though much of the talk about the film before its release has been about Law’s depiction of a younger Putin, including a rather spot-on wig, the film is actually more about Dano’s character, as the trailer shows.
The film also stars Alicia Vikander,
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