In politics, as in life, there is no creation ex nihilo, and Vladimir Putin’s rise to power is no exception. A documentary that goes back to New Year’s Eve 1999, when Russia was acquainted with its new President. Since then, nothing seems to have really changed. Neither Putin’s reign nor the citizen’s political indifference, which has always fueled all kinds of tyranny.
Putin’s Witnesses
Putin’s Witnesses
21st TDF: Greek Premiere

Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Vitaly Mansky
- Script: Vitaly Mansky
- Editing: Gunta Ikere
- Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs
- Music: Karlis Auzans
- Production: Studio Vertov, Golden Egg Production, Hypermarket Film
- Producers: Natalia Manskaya, Gabriela Bussmann, Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák
- Co-producers: ZDF, RTS-SRG SSR, Czech TV
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 107´
- Contact: Deckert Distribution, info@deckert-distribution.com
Vitaly Mansky
Filmography
1988 Boomerang (short)
1990 Post (short)
1993 Cuts of a Recurrent War (short)
1999 Private Chronicles. Monologue
2002 Broadway. Black Sea
2006 Wild, Wild Beach
2009 Beginning / Nikolina Gora. Epilogue
2011 Motherland or Death
2015 Under the Sun
2018 Putin’s Witnesses
2023 Eastern Front
1990 Post (short)
1993 Cuts of a Recurrent War (short)
1999 Private Chronicles. Monologue
2002 Broadway. Black Sea
2006 Wild, Wild Beach
2009 Beginning / Nikolina Gora. Epilogue
2011 Motherland or Death
2015 Under the Sun
2018 Putin’s Witnesses
2023 Eastern Front