THE UNKNOWN PUTIN (0+)
Russia, 2000, colour, 55 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
All over the world this is a special event when political leaders allow a hidden camera. In the Kremlin, such openness is completely unique. Director Sergey Miroshnichenko follows Vladimir Putin who has just been appointed the President. The director manages to some extent to “clean” his image. It turns out that the former KGB officer Putin who looks like a sullen official easily jokes and does not mind personal issues. But the most striking thing: he gave permission for this documentary and for the shooting of the film, even in his own house.
AWARDS
DOK Leipzig (Germany, 2000) – Best TV Film; EXPO (USA, 2000) – Silver Prize.
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Sergey Miroshnichenko
was born in Chelyabinsk in 1955. In 1983, he graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (documentary faculty, A.S.Kochetkov’s workshop). He worked with Sverdlovsk film studio, and Nikita Mikhalkov’s studio «TRITE” until founding his own studio «Ostrov” in 1999. He is still art director of «Ostrov” studio. Since 1998, he is a professor at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. Winner of multiple Russian and international awards.
FILMOGRAPHY
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Island, 1981; Varvara’s Key, 1985; Lady Tundra, 1986; Chastushka. ХХ century, 1989; Born in the USSR: Age 7, 1990; Mystery of Marriage, 1992; Moscow Angel, 2001; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Not Live By Lies, 2001; Georgiy Zhzhonov. Russian Cross, 2003; The Word, 2008; River of Life, 2011; Rings of the World, 2015.
Russia, 2000, colour, 55 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
All over the world this is a special event when political leaders allow a hidden camera. In the Kremlin, such openness is completely unique. Director Sergey Miroshnichenko follows Vladimir Putin who has just been appointed the President. The director manages to some extent to “clean” his image. It turns out that the former KGB officer Putin who looks like a sullen official easily jokes and does not mind personal issues. But the most striking thing: he gave permission for this documentary and for the shooting of the film, even in his own house.
AWARDS
DOK Leipzig (Germany, 2000) – Best TV Film; EXPO (USA, 2000) – Silver Prize.