What's New Oliver Stone Told the World About Putin. Western media: Stone's film about Putin is a political interview in the manner of a thriller Challenged or fell under the spell

05.03.2021

Showtime TV channel showed the first part of the film about Russian President Vladimir Putin. The film was directed by American director Oliver Stone. The film about the Head of State consists of four parts. The premiere took place the day before, on June 12. For the Russian viewer, the interview in translation will be shown on Channel One from June 19 to 22.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet watched the film by the American filmmaker, he will wait for the premiere of the documentary in Russia, writes RIA Novosti.

In one of the conversations with the director, the Russian leader told about family. Vladimir Putin noted that he is proud of his children. According to the Head of State, his daughters are not connected with politics or big business, but are engaged in science and education. "They have their own family life and we are meeting,” the President said, answering one of Stone's questions.

During the interview, remembering about parents, The President noted that he was a late child in the family: “I had a late child ... They (parents - editorial note) before that, they lost two children, one of them during the war, during the siege of Leningrad.

Sports in particular judo, changed the life of the Russian leader in better side. “Since I started judo wrestling, it has changed life for the better,” Putin said. – I finished school in Leningrad and immediately entered Leningrad University to the Faculty of Law.

talking about the collapse of the USSR, The President of Russia said that in one night 25 million Russian people were abroad. “The most important thing is that after the collapse Soviet Union 25 million Russian people ended up abroad overnight, and this is really one of the biggest disasters of the 20th century. Because while people lived within the same country, they had family ties, work, apartment, they were all in equal rights. In one second they were abroad, and first signs appeared in the country, and then a full-scale Civil War", - said the Russian leader.

“Taking responsibility for Russia in that situation is a very difficult thing,” Putin replied to a question about a fateful decision become prime minister and subsequently run for president. “It is one thing to be an official, even of a high rank, and another to live the life of an almost ordinary person, go to visit, to the cinema, to the theater freely, communicate with friends and not bear such personal responsibility for what is happening in the country, for the fate million people,” the head of state said.

Vladimir Putin met to record an interview with Stone several times, it is noted that not a single topic was taboo. Thus, in the film, the Head of State will comment on Russian-American relations, relations with individual American leaders, the Syrian and Ukrainian crisis, NATO activities, internal politics countries and more.

"Have you ever been beaten?" Vladimir Putin asks Oliver Stone towards the end of Stone's extraordinary four-hour documentary about the Russian leader. "Yes," Stone replies. "Then there will be nothing new, because you will suffer for what you are doing," the Russian leader said, before leaving the room, which resembles the Sistine Chapel in spirit, crossed with the most feverish fantasies of an interior designer working for Donald Trump. writes Dominique Rouche in The Guardian.

"Putin was right at that moment," the journalist claims. "Stone's epic film in four parts, The Putin Interviews, was called by The Daily Beast a 'terribly irresponsible love letter'." Russian President. According to CNN, he "talks as much about Oliver Stone as he does about Vladimir Putin." The New York Times verdict is "Flattery with a lack of skepticism."

"Sharp words for a project considering it took a lifetime of achievement to get it and two years to get it done. Is Stone upset?" - the article says.

"I mean, it's reflected in films, you know. You work really hard on a film and sometimes it's judged by the personality of the creator and not by the content. In that sense, I'm kind of black. It's not the content, it's not the content of my character, but the nature of my investigation," Stone said.

"Stone has many faces," Rouche points out: he's both an Oscar-winning director and a celebrated Vietnam War veteran. "He's not black. It's statements like this that get people - almost always men - of his age in trouble these days. At the risk of losing the rest of the interview that just started, I'm ignoring these words," the correspondent notes.

"That sort of definition - on a much larger scale - got Stone's project into trouble. In the first half of his documentary, Putin claims he doesn't have bad days because he's "not a woman." "I don't mean to offend anyone," he says, doing just that. - It's just in the nature of things. There are certain natural cycles." He also admits that he wouldn't shower with a gay man. "Why provoke him? You know I'm a judo master."

And this is the leader of a country with an increasingly disturbing history of violating the rights of the LGBT community, the author argues. Stone skips these comments. Why doesn't he challenge Putin? "That's not my function," he says. He wanted to create a complete portrait of perhaps the most bewitching and intimidating leader in this generation. If he thinks so, Stone wants you to know it. He is not trying to change Putin's mindset, but to show it."

"Stone's bigger idea is that Putin is not that different from many world leaders, even when it comes to social issues," Rouche points out, quoting Stone's remark that Obama was against same-sex marriage until 2014 or 2015 (until 2012, Rusche corrects).

"Most of the reviews for Stone's Putin documentary were written when critics watched the first two hours," the author of the article argues. Stone describes it as "crazy capitalism and alcoholism, a kind of Dostoevsky orgy. "However, "Interview with Putin" becomes more critical in the following episodes. In the second half of the film, Stone presses Putin on the US election hacking, on the oligarchs and on the issue of how long he intends to stay in power. Putin's sphinx-shaped mask cracks from time to time, although his black belt in judo remains with him.

"Let there be no 'yeah, gotcha' moments, but the director's goal was to start an argument, not end it," Rouche points out. threat than ISIS.* From Stone's point of view, the public should also be concerned about U.S. digital capabilities. The world is an unsettling place, and both sides had bad intentions. Simply demonizing Putin - and, by extension, Russia - is dangerous, Stone points out, and wrong ".

About the Russians, the director says: “They have freedom of religion, they go wherever they want. They travel, the Russian people have never lived better. in the gulags that this monster is chopping them all up. It's just crazy." “I mean,” says Stone, “that this is a lie of Murdoch [the CEO of News Corporation media holding. Note. ed.), he lied about the whole world, and those lies led to wars."

“Such a view,” Rouche comments, “will not gain much support in the corridors of power in Washington or London. And it will be challenged by many Russians, including Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader who was in prison and survived physical attacks for being led protests against Putin's regime.

"As if to emphasize how little this documentary has to satisfy many of Putin's critics, it will be screened in Russia uncensored. It is clear that much of it delighted the Russian establishment," the reviewer points out.

* "Islamic State" (ISIS) is a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation.

The US press greeted Oliver Stone's film coldly, which, of course, is expected: why would local journalists praise a director who has been criticizing the American state system for many years, and even more so his hero new work? Nevertheless, almost all the largest newspapers of the country made detailed reviews, dismantling each of the four episodes piece by piece.

Most publicists lament that Stone "departed from the principles of critical journalism", while at the same time noting the bright sides of his work. “Putin appears to be a tough but fair leader, surrounded by slanderous Westernizers,” writes a Washington Post columnist, acknowledging that “Stone, with his leftist views, is destroying stereotypes in the press about Russia.”

But what about ordinary Americans? The film on the Showtime channel was on at 9 pm - in fact, some cool series is on at that time ... “Among my acquaintances,“ Interview with Putin ”is not discussed,” says the ex-correspondent of KP Nadezhda Shulga, who has been living in Washington. “But that’s because it’s generally not customary here to talk about politics outside the closest circle of friends.” On the other hand, a listener of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda, our former compatriot from Detroit, said that "everything that concerns Putin is of great interest to ordinary Americans."

In the United States, we recall, many believe that Russian hackers influenced the last presidential election, so Stone's film was guaranteed high ratings.

On the Web, US citizens feel more relaxed. “This documentary shows Putin and Russia from an unexpected angle,” says one Mike from San Francisco on the website of the popular film encyclopedia imdb.com. - The mainstream media and most Americans have strong negative associations with Russia. And this despite the fact that most often they know little about Russian history. The film provides an opportunity to try to understand Putin and the Russian people, and not just condemn. Highly recommend!".

By the way, audience ratings on movie sites speak eloquently about the perception of Stone's work. On the same imdb.com, Interview with Putin has a score of 7.6/10. For comparison: The Revenant, for which Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar, has a slightly higher rating: 8/10.

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FOURTH SERIES

Vladimir Putin to Oliver Stone: Have you been beaten yet? For this movie you will get

The President spoke about the demonization of Stalin, the Obama Politburo and the intrigue of the 2018 elections

THIRD SERIES

Vladimir Putin: We didn't have simple times. We must thank the Lord that he gives us the opportunity to serve our country

The President spoke about Russia's relations with the United States, Ukraine and Syria ()

SECOND SERIES

Vladimir Putin: Someone dreams of seeing Russia knocked out, but they know that this will not happen

In the second part of the Oliver Stone interview film, the president spoke about Snowden, Ukraine and how he started playing hockey ()

FIRST EPISODE

Vladimir Putin: The United States has the illusion that they can do everything and they will get nothing for it. It was a trap

The President, in an interview with director Oliver Stone, spoke about the mistakes of Washington, the refusal to Yeltsin and his grandchildren ()

Vladimir Putin to Oliver Stone: Have you been beaten yet? For this movie you will get

The President spoke about the demonization of Stalin, the Obama Politburo and the intrigue of the 2018 elections

The first episodes of Oliver Stone's documentary series "Interview with Putin" caused a mixed reaction from journalists in the Western media. Some immediately dubbed the picture "propaganda" for its "flattering tone", while others once again accused the Russian leader of "chauvinism". However, there were also those who noticed in the film "a lot of worldly wisdom a la Putin" against the backdrop of impressive editing and directing.

A new documentary series by American director Oliver Stone called "Interview with Putin" found a mixed response from Western journalists. Having gained access to the first two series of the tape, for example, the American portal Deadline immediately dubbed the picture " ponderous, clumsy propaganda, which would be terrible if it were not so obvious and stupid". The fragments of the “Interview with Putin” shown to journalists have already begun to receive negative reviews due to “ obviously flattering tone", stated Newsweek.

« What we see in "The Putin Interview" is not just one of the attempts of a coming-of-age director to ingratiate himself with a political heavyweight. On a deeper level, this is a litmus test for everyone.(fake. - RT)leftists like Stone, whose unconditional instincts take precedence over sympathy for historically marginalized groups(in this case, women and LGBT communities. — RT),” Salon was indignant.

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The director and the Russian leader discussed Washington's relationship with Moscow and rumors of hacker attacks allegedly carried out by Russia.

What worries Americans the most, the director saved for the last episode. A topic about alleged Russian interference in the American elections.

- Of course, we sympathized with Trump and are doing it now, because he publicly announced his readiness to restore our relations, and when they tried to ask me questions, wanting to catch me, I always asked: are you against good relations between our countries? We need to start a substantive dialogue with the United States - at the level of the State Department, intelligence agencies, and the National Security Council.

Stone does not stop at the first questions and answers. He, as promised in an interview on American talk shows, begins to press. The result, however, is the same.

"So why then did you hack our choices?" the director asks the Russian president.

- We did not deal with any hacker attacks. And it is hard to imagine that any country could influence the course of the company and its result. And the fact that unidentified hackers exposed the problems of the Democratic Party, I do not think that this greatly influenced the course of the company. Hackers have nothing to do with it, these are internal problems of the United States.

Putin read the open part of the report of the American intelligence services on Russian interference, but did not see any specific data there. Only hints and assumptions. But the Americans did not even hide the evidence of their interference in the Russian elections of 2012: open appeals of foreign diplomats and financing of the opposition.

- It was hard for us to even imagine that diplomatic workers would be so aggressively involved in the election campaign inside Russia - gathering opposition forces, financing, running to all sorts of opposition rallies, and so on. The diplomatic service should deal with something else.

During his last interview with Putin, in February 2017, Stone really became bolder. More questions, more comments. There are no forbidden topics. Putin did not answer except for questions about the content of personal conversations with Obama, but he did it, rather, based on foreign policy etiquette.

- Fear among Russian citizens is almost impossible to sow.

- You act strangely, as if you are to blame.

- In principle, I did not want to speak, but you seem to be forcing me, pulling this information out of me.

"Is there evidence in cyberspace that you are innocent?"

- So you don't have bank accounts in Cyprus?

No, no, and never have been. It's all nonsense.

Putin admits that he was called president even before 2000. True, this is big politics then it had nothing to do with it.

- My father died two months before I was appointed prime minister. But even when he was in the hospital, and I came to visit him, he told the medical staff - here comes my president.

Tried Oliver Stone and play the president - staged their meeting during the last interview.

Oliver Stone: "I'll make it look like we don't know each other. Like we haven't seen each other in months."

Putin: "I can go down from the balcony."

Putin, however, did not follow someone else's scenario. Instead of another hello to Stone, he suddenly appeared with a cup of coffee.

How did an American manage to communicate with Putin in such a way, get such access and bring this project to the end? Now these questions are being asked by the American media.

“You will catch more flies if you leave honey, not vinegar. He knew that I would not edit his thoughts, that I would let him speak on American air. And I want to continue talking to him. It is in my interests,” says Oliver Stone (footage broadcast on CBS).

"You've never been beaten in your life, have you?" Putin asks Stone.

"Oh yes, beaten!" Stone admits.

"Well then, you won't get used to it, because you will get it!" - .