From visionary director Olivier Assayas, featuring a top-tier cast, comes a tense and subversive political thriller that reveals the rise of Vladimir Putin.
Russia, the early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, the brilliant young Vadim Baranov searches for his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he soon becomes a political strategist for a rising KGB agent – Vladimir Putin. At the very center of power, Baranov shapes a new Russia, erasing the boundaries between truth and lies, belief and manipulation. The only person beyond his control is the charismatic Ksenia – the woman who tempts him to leave the dangerous game. Years later, after retreating into silence and secrecy, Baranov finally speaks, revealing 3,000 years after the Great Flood, the legend of the exiled Storm Rider inspires two rebellious islanders to uncover the truth about the origin of their world, a secret regime whose creation he himself had helped.
Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright.
2h 32m
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