Watch the trailer for the upcoming Oliver Stone Showtime documentary about Vladimir Putin
Showtime has released a new trailer for the upcoming Oliver Stone documentary The Putin Interviews. For four consecutive nights beginning Monday, June 12 at 9:00/8:00c, you’ll be able to watch Russian President Vladimir Putin answer Stone’s questions about the U.S. election, Trump, Syria, Snowden and more. In the official press release, The Putin Interviews is compared to the Nixon interviews, which was a series of conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon from 1977. You can watch the trailer below.
Academy Award-winning writer and director Stone (Platoon, Snowden) worked with documentary producer Fernando Sulichin and interviewed Vladimir Putin more than a dozen times over two years, including an interview in February after the U.S. presidential elections.
“If Vladimir Putin is indeed the great enemy of the United States, then at least we should try to understand him,” Stone said in a statement.
Here is some more info about the documentary and what we’ll learn from Vladimir Putin:
“During these wide-ranging interviews, Putin confronts the controversies engulfing the increasingly fragile relations between the U.S. and Russia today, including his views on President Donald Trump and allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, NATO, and fostering turmoil in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere.
“Prodded by Stone, Putin traverses a host of critical topics in sharp detail, including Putin’s rise to the Presidency, and long-term grip on power, his personal relationships with Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump – as well as Yeltsin and Gorbachev. He also talks of the legacies of Stalin and Reagan, as well as the surveillance state and Edward Snowden’s flight to asylum in Moscow, and the resignation of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”
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