Archive: Year 2019
VIEW FROM THE WORLD
Putin’s Witnesses
Svideteli Putina
Director
Vitaly Mansky
Producers
Filip Remunda
Gabriela Bussmann
Natalia Manskaya
Cinematographer
Vitaly Mansky
Editor
Gunta Ikere
Sound
Anrijs Krenbergs
Website
2019
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic
42 min
Color
The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new President. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny.
Director
Vitaly Mansky * 1963 in Lvov / Ukraine, USSR graduated from VGIK - All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1989 and became one of the most acclaimed contemporary Russian documentary filmmakers and producers. He has shot more than 30 films as a director which screened at festivals worldwide and were awarded several times. As a producer, Mansky produced films by directors like Renata Litvinova, Alexander Rastorguyev, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Dmitry Zhelkovsky, and Sergei Loznitsa.
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