What The Wizard of the Kremlin gets wrong about Russia

What The Wizard of the Kremlin gets wrong about Russia Jude Law and Paul Dano fail to convince as Putin and his Rasputin-like adviser. i imdb dataLayer.push({ event: 'author', author: "Mary Dejevsky" }) Mary Dejevsky 29th April 2026 i imdb Share Topics Books Politics World Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. It has to be pure coincidence that a new flurry of Western speculation about Vladimir Putin’s hold on power in the Kremlin comes hard on the heels of the UK release of Olivier Assayas’s film, The Wizard of the Kremlin, a lightly fictionalised account of the 30 years in which Putin rose to become president and Russia’s ever more dominant leader.

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