EPISODE
The Putin Interviews - Season 1
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews the Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to the US-Russia relations.
17 July 1954, Hamburg, Germany
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
17 March 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 August 1936, Canal Zone, Panama
1 February 1931, Butka, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Talitsa Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia]
7 October 1952, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
20 November 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
28 March 1928, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
June 08, 2017
In the absence of startling revelations, what's fascinating about this elaborate production is the theater of it all.
June 12, 2017
As journalism, this is scattershot at best, but as a conversation that covers a vast span of Russian history, culture, and politics as refracted through the mind of Russia's president -- it's often remarkable.
June 06, 2017
It's riveting in how dangerous and intimate it feels, leveraging its multiple camera-angles and hand-held shots to make the viewer feel as if they, too, are in the room with Vladimir Putin.
June 09, 2017
The special is solicitous, even obsequious, but sometimes revealing anyway.
June 07, 2017
It was a match made in heaven.
June 09, 2017
However charitable one might feel about his intentions, this was a case where a few clear rules were surely in order.
June 06, 2017
It's not every interview-driven documentary that's a pleasure to look at, but The Putin Interviews is much more visually dynamic than either of its on-camera subjects.
June 13, 2017
The conversations are conducted via a Russian translator, and you have to be in the mood to read a lot of subtitles to engage with Putin and Stone's policy discussions, but that small effort is well worth it.
