Jude Law debuts portrayal of Vladimir Putin in ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ at Venice Film Festival

The film is an adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s bestselling book of the same name, an account of the Russian President’s rise to power alongside a fictional adviser called Vadim Baranov, who is played by Paul Dano. It’s partially set in the early 1990s amid post-Soviet chaos. Dano’s character was...