Jude Regulation, Alicia Vikander and Paul Dano are able to premiere their new movie!
The actors all attended the photocall for The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le Mage Du Kremlin) in the course of the 2025 Venice Movie Competition on Sunday (August 31) in Venice, Italy.
It’s primarily based on Le Mage du Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
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The forged additionally contains Tom Sturridge, Will Eager, and Jeffrey Wright.
Right here’s a synopsis, through the movie pageant: “Russia, early Nineteen Nineties. Amid post-Soviet chaos, an excellent younger man, Vadim Baranov (Dano), charts his path. First an artist, then a actuality television producer, he turns into the spin physician to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin (Regulation). On the coronary heart of energy, Baranov shapes the brand new Russia, blurring the boundaries between reality and lies, perception and manipulation. Solely the magnetic Ksenia (Vikander) is past his management, tempting him away from this harmful sport. Years later, after retreating into silence and shrouded in thriller, Baranov lastly opens up, revealing the darkish secrets and techniques of the regime he helped construct.”
Olivier Assayas, the director, additionally shared an announcement in regards to the manufacturing.
“Le Mage du Kremlin isn’t a movie in regards to the rise of 1 man — neither is it in regards to the power with which energy is imposed, or the reinvention of a nation that’s each trendy and archaic, as soon as once more beneath the yoke of totalitarianism,” he mentioned.
“Rooted in actual, modern occasions, it’s as an alternative a mirrored image on trendy politics — or somewhat, the smokescreens behind which it now hides: cynical, misleading, and poisonous.
In the present day’s energy gamers wield instruments of mass manipulation and distortion with a precision that was as soon as unimaginable. In that sense, Le Mage du Kremlin isn’t a lot a political movie as it’s a movie about politics — and the perversity of its strategies, which now maintain us all hostage.”
“I consider — or maybe I’m deluding myself — that exposing the internal workings of lies and oppression continues to be price pursuing. That perception is what led me to adapt Giuliano da Empoli’s novel for the display screen. It bears witness to a drama nonetheless unfolding on the world stage, however seen by way of an achingly human lens. It’s the troubled humanity of Vadim Baranov’s destiny that each guides and unsettles us. His love affair with Ksenia — a lucid observer and cruel choose of his manoeuvres — mirrors our personal ethical journey between good and evil. How, regardless of the whole lot, can we discover redemption? How can we stroll this razor’s edge — responsible and harmless, and but all tragically complicit?”
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