Short Films

{{item.headline}}

> DETAIL INFO

Documentary Time

PUTIN’S WITNESSES
SVIDETELI PUTINA

• Director: Vitaly Mansky
• LATVIA, SWITZERLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC / 2018 / DCP / Colour / 102’ / Russian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Vitaly Mansky
• Editing: Gunta Ikere
• Music: Karlis Auzans
• Producer: Natalia Manskaya, Gabriela Bussmann, Filip Remunda
• Production Co.: Studio Vertov, Golden Egg Production, Hypermarket Film
• World Sales: Deckert Distribution

- 2018 KARLOVY VARY -- Best Documentary
- 2018 STOCKHOLM -- Best International Documentary

The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new President Vladimir Putin, as Boris Yeltsin announced that he was stepping down. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of “Operation Successor”. 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. Made by one of Russia’s most renowned documentary-makers, Vitaly Mansky, Putin’s Witnesses tells the story of how Putin rose to power and is holding his position for nearly two decades, by providing first-hand footage he shot near Putin and Yeltsin, on that fateful night.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.