Putin's Playground

synopsis

In 2014, Poland was rocked by a wiretapping scandal whose trail led clearly to Russia.Why? What do we know about Russian diversions and massive influence on public opinion in Bulgaria? What do we make of the situation in Latvia, where a large Russian minority lives? The film Putin's Playground tells us about all this. In the Czech Republic, Konrad Szołajski filmed Vrbětice, where Russian agents blew up an ammunition depot and killed two people in 2014. The director and his producer, Małgorzata Prociaková, follow the agents' trail and, for example, stay in the same room of an Ostrava hotel with the Corrado shooting range (which impresses them as "the Russian dream of Las Vegas").

biography

He graduated from the University of Warsaw (MA, Polish language and literature) and attended courses at the State Theatre School in Warsaw. Worked as a freelance film critic 1975-1979. Graduated from Silesian University (MA, directing). Worked for Polish Radio and Television, scripting and directing productions. From 1985 to 1987 he attended the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England. He also attended the Equinoxe Screenwriting Workshop in Beyschevelle in 1996 (script: Operation GOAT) and the Sundance Institute in Budapest in 1998 (script: Faith-Healer) and the Arista Development Sirolo in Sirolo, Italy in 2005.

more about film

director:	Konrad Szołajski
producer:	Konrad Szołajski, Małgorzata Prociak
script:	Konrad Szołajski
photography:	Michał Ślusarczyk, Jan Šípek
editing:	Bartosz Jędrzejczyk, Paweł Kowalik
music:	Rihards Zalupe
sound:	Michal Gábor
sound design:	Richard Müller, Jan Čeněk
co-producer:	Wroclaw Feature Film Studio, Hypermarket Film, Česká televize, Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion GmbH, Red Dot Media, Isme Film, AGITPROP

contact

Małgorzata Prociak / ZK Studio
gosia@zkstudio.pl