RFW 2019: The Case

The central figure of The Case is Anatoly Sobchak. He was a democrat of the first wave in Gorbachev era and the first mayor of St.-Petersburg who ironically brought Vladimir Putin into power.

Ksenia Sobchak, a daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, is a protagonist. In the beginning of the documentary, Ksenia describes the film as an attempt to reconstruct the events of the last 10 years of her father’s life when she was just a kid. Ksenia tries to answer the questions why pro-democracy activist Sobchak brought Vladimir Putin, a KGB officer, into power and why Boris Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor. Film uncovers the events of the power succession, untold special agent Putin’s operation and Sobchak’s pivotal role in it and the effect of the criminal case against him.

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Vera Krichevskaya, idea and narration Ksenia Sobchak

Cast: Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Victor Zolotov, Anatoly Sobchak, Alexander Korzhakov, Tatiana Yumasheva

Russia, 2019

In Russian with English subtitles

Q&A session with director Vera Krichevskaya