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Putin: The New Tsar is 2018 a documentary produced by OxfordFilms/ BBC and directed by Patrick Forbes, airing on BBC2. It discusses Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Interview subjects include politicians and non-politicians, with some being Russian and others being foreigners. [1]
Contents
Among the participants are Garry Kasparov, a chess prodigy; [2] Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch; [3] Sergei Pugachev, who was in Putin's power network; [2] Ksenia Sobchak, a member of Russian high society; [3] Ian Robertson, a psychologist from Trinity College Dublin; and Jack Straw, a British politician. [1] Robertson stated that Putin's experience in a high political position "profoundly changed" his brain. [3]
Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph stated that Putin: The New Tsar's "true purpose was to place in historical context Putin's unlikely rise from provincial obscurity in St Petersburg" to being the President of Russia. [3] It was produced prior to the 2018 Russian presidential election. Power stated that it "fleetingly touched upon" allegations of Russian agents attacking enemies of the Russian government outside of Russia. [3]
Reception
Sam Wollaston of The Guardian gave the film four of five stars and stated that Putin: The New Tsar "could almost be funny if it weren't so scary". [2]
Power gave the film four of five stars. He stated that "an attempt to diagnose Putin as an addict to absolute power" as the film's "biggest error". [3] He concluded the film was "otherwise an exemplary portrayal of" Putin. [3]
The Moscow Times praised the dispassionate tone in the narrator and the "[crisp] and [coherent]" pace. [1] It criticised the "clichéd title", the lack of coverage of Russian political opposition, and overstating the level of support Putin has among Russian citizens. [1] The paper concluded that Putin: The New Tsar is "very much worth tracking down and talking up." [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Putin: The New Tsar". Moscow Times. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ a b c Wollaston, Sam (10 March 2018). "Putin: The New Tsar review – a portrait of a lonely, lying narcissist". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Power, Ed (9 March 2018). "Putin: The New Tsar review - the attempt to diagnose Putin as an addict to absolute power was an error". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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