The dark side of Putin and his alleged criminal past (2015) - The Fifth Estate

Vladimir Putin is a symbol of Russian power and pride, but he’s also reigned over a corrupt state. In February, opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death at an Arctic penal colony galvanized much of the Western world.

A joint 2015 investigation with PBS’s Frontline reveals details about the Russian president’s past, including allegations of criminal activity dating back to his early days as a top official in St. Petersburg and ties to organized crime. The Fifth Estate’s Gillian Findlay reports on the dark side of one of the most powerful men in the world in an encore edition that’s as relevant today as it was when we first told it.

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00:00 - Vladimir Putin arrives at the Kremlin
11:32 - Apartment bombings shake a country – but who’s to blame?
25:32 - Putin woos the West
37:48 - Putin on the offensive

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PUTIN’S LONG SHADOW

producer/director
NEIL DOCHERTY

written by
GILLIAN FINDLAY

associate producer
RONNA SYED

editor
LIZ ROSCH

additional research
ANASTASIA KIRILENKO

principal cinematography
PAUL SEELER

additional cinematography
JOHN BADCOCK CSC
ALEXEY SERGEYEV
HANS VANDERZANDE

audio
MIKHAIL BUYANOV
STEFAN BIRRER
TONIS RIISALU

graphic designers
TIM KINDRACHUK
DAVID ABRAHAMS

visual research
LESLIE MORRISON
archival material
AP ARCHIVE
CORBIS
GETTY IMAGES
ITAR-TASS
ITN SOURCE
KREMLIN ARCHIVE
NBC
NTV
REUTERS
STEVE BACK
ALEXANDER BELENKY / ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
JEAN-CHARLES DENIAU
ALEXANDER GABNIS
ANDREY NEKRASOV
IGOR SHADKHAN
NICK STURDEE
CYRIL TUSCHI


special thanks
IGOR MALAKHOV
IRINA MELNIKOVA
TEO LOZANO MORENO
ALEX SHPRINTSEN
SLAVA ZELENIN
HOTEL OCHO

translators
VERENA KLEIN
STEPHAN LANG
IGOR MALAKHOV
KAJA SAKK
MAXIM SIDOROV
JOHN PAUL TASKER
CHAD THOMSON
LIANA WAECKERLI
YULIA VASILYEVA
SLAVA ZELENIN

voice actors
JORDAN ANDONOV
DAVID FRISCH
ELIZABETH HANNA
SLAVA ZELENIN

audio mix
MARK WRIGHT

colourist
ERIC BARNETT

senior clerk
LAURA McISAAC

interactive producer
STUART DUNCAN

promotions producer
CATHERINE TSALIKIS

unit manager
ANNE WAI-YEE QUAN

theme music composed by
STEFANO D’ANGELO
for Eggplant Productions

music supervisor
PATRICK RUSSELL
associate director
LINDA SIBONY

packaging editor
NANCY DIMENNA

resource coordinator
VICTOR KERR
coordinating producer
BRIGITTE AYOTTE-THOMPSON

senior producer
JULIAN SHER

executive producer
JIM WILLIAMSON