Monday, September 01, 2025

Venice Film Festival: Jude Law plays Vladimir Putin in new movie called the Wizard of the Kremlin. Really!

What the heck!! There is even a movie about the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! The title of the movie is totally ridiculous! There is also a book by the same title.

Is the movie industry really in such a bad shape to make such movies!

Can you imagine there would have been a book and film around 1940 about the Wizard in the Reichskanzlei (Adolf Hitler)!

"Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin for Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which had its world premiere Sunday at the Venice Film Festival. ...

The film is an adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s bestselling book of the same name, an account of the Russian president’s rise to power alongside a fictional adviser called Vadim Baranov, who is played by Paul Dano. It’s partially set in the early 1990s amid post-Soviet chaos and continues through 2014. ..."

Venice Film Festival: Jude Law plays Vladimir Putin in new movie | AP News




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