Who Is Mister Putin (2015)

Director: Valeriy Balayan

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

Cast

Yuri Makarov

Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Marina Salye

Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad

Oleg Kalugin

Self - Former KGB General, Former Deputy of the USSR

José Grinda Gonzalez

Self - Anti-corruption Prosecutor

Aleksandr Anikin

Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Lawyer

Aleksandr Shchelkanov

Self - Former Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991)

Nikolay Andrushchenko

Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, Newspaper Editor

Petr Aven

Self - Ex-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Ivanidze

Self - Journalist