{"id":583395,"date":"2026-04-14T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:01:09","slug":"the-wizard-of-the-kremlin-first-official-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583395\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Wizard of the Kremlin&#8217; First Official Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first official trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/olivier-assayas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivier-assayas_1\" data-tag=\"olivier-assayas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivier Assayas<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-wizard-of-the-kremlin_1\" data-tag=\"the-wizard-of-the-kremlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wizard of the Kremlin<\/a> has been released, and more of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jude-law\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jude-law_1\" data-tag=\"jude-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jude Law<\/a>\u2018s uncanny transformation into Russian leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/vladimir-putin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vladimir-putin_1\" data-tag=\"vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> is revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe political drama charts the rise of Putin into a global player with the help of scheming spin doctor Vadim Baranov (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paul-dano\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-dano_1\" data-tag=\"paul-dano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Dano<\/a> playing a character based on Vladislav Surkov, widely considered the \u201cgrey cardinal\u201d of Russian politics). The trailer depicts Baranov convincing Putin of his cynical approach to geopolitics, with the goal being to \u201csow chaos\u201d and \u201cbuild the myth that the Russians and controlling the modern world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThough much of the talk about the film before its release has been about Law\u2019s depiction of a younger Putin, including a rather spot-on wig, the film is actually more about Dano\u2019s character, as the trailer shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film also stars Alicia Vikander, Will Keen, Tom Sturridge and Jeffrey Wright. Assayas directs the film from a script he co-wrote with Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, which is based on the book of the same name by Giuliano da Empoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Wizard of the Kremlin premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, where it was warmly received. Writing after the film\u2019s debut in Venice, The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin-review-olivier-assayas-jude-law-1236351881\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was a little more cautious about the film in their review<\/a>. \u201cAssayas\u2019 movie coasts swiftly along, from the fall of the U.S.S.R in the late 1980s to the 2014 invasion of Crimea, with the director applying a fluid, unfussy style as he leaps between offices, hotels, mansions, forests, and streets in Moscow, London and other capitals,\u201d they wrote. \u201cBut things tend to get muddled whenever he slows down and tries to create real drama or memorable characters, at which point The Wizard of the Kremlin feels clunky and expository, as if the actors were reciting lines from the totalitarian\u2019s playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/vertical-wizard-of-the-kremlin-north-america-1236504732\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vertical acquired the North American rights<\/a> to The Wizard of the Kremlin and plans to release the film in theaters on May 15. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first official trailer for Olivier Assayas\u2018 The Wizard of the Kremlin has been released, and more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,2091,67014,206,78610,78607,79000,6508],"class_list":{"0":"post-583395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-jude-law","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-olivier-assayas","13":"tag-paul-dano","14":"tag-the-wizard-of-the-kremlin","15":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}