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.
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)Oleg Kalugin
Self - Former KGB General, Former Deputy of the USSRYuri Makarov
Narrator (voice)AMG
Self (archive footage)Petr Aven
Self - Ex-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian FederationMarina Salye
Self - Former Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of LeningradAndrey Zykov
Self - Former Police InvestigatorJürgen Roth
Self - German Publicist on organized crime