Film · Drama
The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026)
Power was the plan. Putin was the consequence.
In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape life behind the Iron Curtain, using violence and deception to change the world forever.
- Director
- Olivier Assayas
- Writers
- Giuliano da Empoli, Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- January 21, 2026
- Original title
- Le Mage du Kremlin
Cast
Paul DanoVadim Baranov
Jude LawVladimir Putin
Alicia VikanderKsenia
Tom SturridgeDmitri Sidorov
Will KeenBoris Berezovsky
Jeffrey WrightRowland
Andrei ZayatsIgor Sechine
Kaspars KambalaAlexander Zaldostanov
Andris KeišsYevgeny Prigozhin- George SogisBoris Yeltsin
Magne-Håvard BrekkeEduard Limonov
Emmanuel CarrèreEdouard Vercambre
Elisa LasowskiMarylène
Marija LinarteAnastasia Chekova- Dmitry KrupnikovBaranov's Father
- Dmitry TurchaninovGarry Kasparov
- Ints IndriksonsBadri
Egons DombrovskisSt. Petersburg Friend- Vadim NikolaychukDmitry Medvedev
- Kaspars KārkliņšWhite House Official
