“Russia is overmastered to corporation by the KGB and mafia representatives”
Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.
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Cast
13 people
Yuri Makarov
Narrator (voice)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Putin: The New Tsar
The Case
Marina Salye
Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad
Oleg Kalugin
Self - Former KGB General, Former Deputy of the USSR
José Grinda Gonzalez
Self - Anti-corruption Prosecutor
Aleksandr Anikin
Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Lawyer
Aleksandr Shchelkanov
Self - Former Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991)
Nikolay Andrushchenko
Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Newspaper Editor
Petr Aven
Self - Ex-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Ivanidze
Self - Journalist
Andrey Zykov
Self - Former Police Investigator
Jürgen Roth
Self - German Publicist on organized crime
Valeriy Balayan Director
United States release April 27, 2016 · Original title huizmisterputin
Languages
Original title
huizmisterputin
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Ukraine · December 29, 2015
Premiere
United States · April 27, 2016
Premiere · Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative
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