The Putin Interviews 

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews the Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to the US-Russia relations.

Stars:

Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Chudinov

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Oliver Stone	...	Self 4 episodes, 2017
Vladimir Putin	...	Self 4 episodes, 2017
Sergei Chudinov	...	Self / ... 4 episodes, 2017
Vasily Khristoforov	...	Self 1 episode, 2017
Fernando Sulichin	...	Self 1 episode, 2017
George Bush	...	Self - US President (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Bill Clinton	...	Self - US President (archive footage) 3 episodes, 2017
Boris Yeltsin	...	Self - Russian President (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Aaron Brown	...	Self - CNN presents (archive footage) unknown episodes
Dan Rather	...	Self - 60 Minutes (archive footage) unknown episodes
George W. Bush	...	Self - US President (archive footage) 3 episodes, 2017
Zbigniew Brzezinski	...	Self - US National Security Advisor (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Hillary Clinton	...	Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate (archive footage) 3 episodes, 2017
Joseph Dunford	...	Self - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Mikheil Saakashvili	...	Self - Georgian President (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Gennadiy Zyuganov	...	Self - Communist Presidential Candidate (archive footage) unknown episodes
Sergei M. Mironov	...	Self - Independent Presidential Candidate (archive footage) unknown episodes
Mikhail Prokhorov	...	Self - Independent Presidential Candidate (archive footage) unknown episodes
Vladimir Zhirinovskiy	...	Self - Liberal Presidential Candidate (archive footage) unknown episodes
Victor Yanukovich	...	Self - Ukrainian President (archive footage) 2 episodes, 2017
Angela Merkel	...	Self - Chancellor of Germany (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Dmytro Yarosh	...	Self - Leader of the Right Sector (archive footage) unknown episodes
Victoria Nuland	...	Self - US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (archive footage) 2 episodes, 2017
Joe Biden	...	Self - US Vice-President (archive footage) 2 episodes, 2017
Bashar al-Assad	...	Self - Syrian President (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
Barack Obama	...	Self - US President (archive footage) 2 episodes, 2017
Donald Trump	...	Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage) 1 episode, 2017
John McCain	...	Self - US Senator (archive footage) 2 episodes, 2017

Storyline

Granted unprecedented access to both Putin's professional and personal worlds, Oscar®-winning writer and director Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) with the help of his longtime documentary producer Fernando Sulichin, interviewed the Russian leader more than a dozen times over the course of two years, most recently in February following the U.S. presidential elections. Since first becoming the president of Russia in 2000, Putin has never before spoken at such length or in such detail to a Western interviewer, leaving no topic off limits. In scope and depth, THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS recalls The Nixon Interviews, the series of conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon that aired in the spring of 1977, 40 years ago.

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Plot Keywords:

tyrant | dictator | sycophant | interview | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is Oliver Stone's second television series to be aired by Showtime Networks, after the 2012 documentary series "The Untold History of the United States".

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Quotes

Oliver Stone: Do you ever have bad days?
Vladimir Putin: I'm not a woman, so I don't have bad days.
Oliver Stone: There you go. Now you're gonna insult 50 percent of the American public. The way they're gonna take it.
Vladimir Putin: I'm not trying to insult anyone. That's just the nature of things

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Connections

Features Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)

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Soundtracks

Serenade for Strings

User Reviews

A must must watch, a masterpiece for everyone

This is really interesting, to know the Russian perspective, and the struggle of Russia since 1990s to have friendly relations with the USA...it shows how many times Russia tried to join USA in different fields to be part of the block and not be considered a threat or an outsider.

It shows how the US denied Russia of becoming part of the NATO, and then surrounding Russia by all the NATO allies countries situated in close proximity with the Russia, establishing military bases in those countries which will always posses a threat not only to the Russia but to the whole world. This also shows that the US might also make Afghanistan a part of the NATO and establish military bases there for long term, which is also in close proximity with the Russia and Iran,China, Pakistan.

This is really important to watch for those who don't know much about Russia and their point of view about the world.

Details

Official Sites:

SHOWTIME

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

12 June 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Putin Interviews

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Showtime Documentary Films, New Element Media, Ixtlan Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

58 min 98 min (total run time)