Putin's witnesses / Icarus Films ; Vertov.Real Cinema ; Golden Egg Production, Hypermarket Film, Studio Vertov ; in co-production with ZDF [and 3 others] ; a film by Vitaly Mansky ; written and directed by Vitaly Mansky ; co-produced by Natalia Manskaia [and 3 others].
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018] |
| Description | 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 42 min.) : digital, sound, color |
| Supplemental Content | Connect to electronic video. -- (Source: Docuseek) |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Manskiĭ, Vitaliĭ, 1963- film director, screenwriter. |
| Other author/creator | Manskai͡a︡, Natalʹi͡a︡, 1961- film producer. |
| Other author/creator | Vertov realʹnoe kino (Firm), production company. |
| Other author/creator | Studio Vertov (Firm), production company. |
| Other author/creator | Golden Egg Productions, production company. |
| Other author/creator | Hypermarket Films, Ltd., production company. |
| Other author/creator | Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, production company. |
| Other author/creator | Icarus Films, distributor. |
| Abstract | "On December 31, 1999, Russian president Boris Yeltsin went on live television just before midnight. He announced he was stepping down, and his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin, would take over as acting president. Putin promised a presidential election in three months. Vitaly Mansky spent the evening filming his family on the eve of the new millennium. Soon after, Mansky set to work filming Putin and those around him. As a director working for Russian state TV, his purpose was making a film that would boost Putin's electoral success. This film looks at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. |
| General note | Title from title frames. |
| General note | Originally produced by: Studio Vertov/Golden Egg Productions/Hypermarket Films, ©2018. |
| Access restriction | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Credits | Editing, Gunta Ikere ; music, Kãrllis Auzãns. |
| Performer | Vitaly Mansky. |
| Technical details | System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | In Russian with English subtitles. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 15, 2021). |
| Genre/form | Documentary films. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Publisher number | if-witnes Docuseek2 |