The Polish box office champ, director of 'Pitbull' and 'Women of Mafia,' will take on the true-life tale about the rise of the Russian president.
Polish box office champ Patryk Vega will make his English-language debut with a true-life gangster tale about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in Russia., a reference to a Russian mafia term akin to “the godfather,” will look at Putin from his hardscrabble beginnings in St.
Petersburg “all the way to the war in Ukraine,” Vega toldMany have drawn a connection between Putin’s links to organized crime in his time as mayor of St. Petersburg in the lawless period after the fall of the Soviet Union with the kleptocratic and authoritarian regime he has imposed on the entire country as president.
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