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) throughout the 2025 Venice Movie Pageant 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 solid additionally contains Tom Sturridge, Will Eager, and Jeffrey Wright.
Right here’s a synopsis, by way of the movie competition: “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 just isn’t a movie in regards to the rise of 1 man — neither is it in regards to the drive with which energy is imposed, or the reinvention of a nation that’s each fashionable and archaic, as soon as once more underneath the yoke of totalitarianism,” he stated.
“Rooted in actual, modern occasions, it’s as a substitute a mirrored image on fashionable politics — or fairly, the smokescreens behind which it now hides: cynical, misleading, and poisonous.
Immediately’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 just 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 interior workings of lies and oppression continues to be value 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 decide of his manoeuvres — mirrors our personal ethical journey between good and evil. How, regardless of every thing, can we discover redemption? How can we stroll this razor’s edge — responsible and harmless, and but all tragically complicit?”
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