Vladimir Putin
Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.
A trio of political films at TIFF — ranging from tragedy to farce.
How well “The Wizard of the Kremlin” will be received here is an interesting question, especially when the novel is evaluated in the light of Mstyslav Chernov’s visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”
In the annals of Russian repression, The New Greatness Case was a display of government overkill — until the events of this year redefined overkill.
What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?
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