Svideteli Putina
Putin’s Witnesses
„Wenn Putin gewählt wird, ist die Medienfreiheit garantiert!“, verkündet der russische Präsident Boris Jelzin strahlend und ohne gewollte Ironie in der Wahlnacht von 1999. Als Dokumentarfilmchef eines staatlichen Senders hatte Regisseur Vitaly Mansky damals praktisch uneingeschränkten Zugang zu Putin und den inneren Zirkeln der russischen Führung. 20 Jahre später sitzt er im lettischen Exil und greift in sein Videoarchiv, um einmalige, nie gesehene, persönliche Einblicke in die Geschehnisse rund um Putins Machtübernahme zu liefern. (Zurich Film Festival)
Let’s go back to the last day of 1999 when the former head of the Federal Security Service, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ascended to the Russian presidency. Ukrainian-born Vitaly Mansky based his film on witness accounts of the events that happened in the years following that fateful day in December, perhaps the most important moment in 21st century Russian history. The director rounds these out with his own fascinating perspective and with the unique, long-standing experience of a man whom only a movie camera separated from the upper echelons of power. (Karel Och, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
Director's Biography
Vitaly Mansky
Vitaly Mansky was born in Lvov, Ukraine. He studied film at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography and has won over fifty awards, including a Silver Dove at DOK Leipzig and the Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His documentary "Close Relations" (2016) was awarded Best Documentary at Crossing Europe 2017.
Film Selection: Svideteli Putina (Putin's Witnesses, 2018, doc) - Rodnye (Close Relations, 2016, doc, CE'17) - V paprscích slunce (Under the Sun 2015, doc) - Truba (Pipeline, 2013, doc) - Rodina ili smert (Motherland or Death, 2011, doc) - Nasha rodina (Gagarin’s Pioneers, 2005, doc) - Brodvey. Chernoe more (Broadway. Black Sea, 2002, doc) - Evreyskoe schaste (Jewish Happiness, 1991)
Vitaly Mansky was born in Lvov, Ukraine. He studied film at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography and has won over fifty awards, including a Silver Dove at DOK Leipzig and the Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His documentary "Close Relations" (2016) was awarded Best Documentary at Crossing Europe 2017.
Film Selection: Svideteli Putina (Putin's Witnesses, 2018, doc) - Rodnye (Close Relations, 2016, doc, CE'17) - V paprscích slunce (Under the Sun 2015, doc) - Truba (Pipeline, 2013, doc) - Rodina ili smert (Motherland or Death, 2011, doc) - Nasha rodina (Gagarin’s Pioneers, 2005, doc) - Brodvey. Chernoe more (Broadway. Black Sea, 2002, doc) - Evreyskoe schaste (Jewish Happiness, 1991)
Competition Documentary 2019
Vitaly Mansky
Lettland / Schweiz / Tschechien 2018
color
102 Minuten
Russisch OmeU
Drehbuch Vitaly Mansky
Kamera Vitaly Mansky
Schnitt Gunta Ikere
Ton/Sounddesign Anrijs Krenbergs
Musik Kārlis Auzāns
Mit Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev
Produzent*innen Natalya Manskaya, Gabriela Bussmann, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda
Produktion
Studio Vertov, Golden Egg Production, Hypermarket Film
Weltvertrieb
Deckert Distribution
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Weltpremiere / World PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
