Scandinavian premiere:
The Putin System
No one of my generation thought that we would see the fall of the Soviet Union and communism. When this finally occurred, no one thought that it would ever return. But it has.
-Yuri Samodurov, president of the Sakharov Fund in The Putin System
Since Vladimir Putin took over power from Yeltsin he has systematically changed the political situation in the country. Step by step Putin is eliminating all opposition in the Russian state apparatus.
A new political system has been established in Russia, Putin’s system. Without independent media, without a functioning judicial system, without opposition.
The Putin System is a French documentary in which interviews and a narrator’s voice guide us through Putin’s eight years in power. We are presented with a survey of the important components Putin has utilized to build up Russia’s status as a world power. At a rapid pace the viewer meets people, many of whom themselves live under threat due to their critical views of the system of power in the Kremlin.
The film is a political document of the highest quality which provides exceptional opportunities for discussions about Russia’s rapidly-changing relationship to the rest of the world.
