Putin: A Russian Spy Story The Rise of Putin (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV-14
TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary, Biography

Putin: A Russian Spy Story

The Rise of Putin (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV-14

TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary, Biography

Putin escapes poverty by joining the KGB, his reinvention as a political fixer in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and how he gets into position to take over from President Yeltsin.

Director

Nick Green

Writer

Nick Green

Composer

Tom Howe

Cinematographers

Charlie Laing | Danny Salkhov

Editors

Douglas Fayers | Adam Finch | Anna Saridi | Darron White

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Edit Released

Updated Mar 23, 2020

Release date

Mar 23, 2020 (United Kingdom)

Awards

Series awards

2 nominations

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28 cast members

Name	Known for
Bashar al-Assad Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cries from Syria (2017)
Tony Brenton Self Self See fewer	Putin, Russia and the West (2011)
Bill Clinton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Great Irish Potato Famine
Mikhail Fishman Self Self See fewer	The Man Who Was Too Free (2016)
Mark Galeotti Self Self See fewer	Sky News Tonight (2014)
Alex Goldfarb Self Self See fewer	Death of a Dissident
Vladimir Kara-Murza Self Self See fewer	Svidetel veka (2000)
Bridget Kendall Self Self See fewer	BBC News at Six (1984)
Sergey Kirienko Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tagesschau (1952)
Alexander Litvinenko Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Assassination of Russia (2002)
Andrei Lugovoi Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2007)
Lev Lurie Self Self See fewer	Saunaliittolaiset Kekkonen ja Hrushtshov (2010)
Theresa May Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Princess Catherine: Queen in Waiting
Boris Nemtsov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Zvyozdniy vors (2012)
Arkady Ostrovsky Self Self See fewer	Citizen K (2019)
Gleb Pavlovsky Self Self See fewer	Pulverfass Kaukasus (2022)
Vladimir Putin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Putin Interviews (2017)
Alexander Rahr Self Self See fewer	Planet Wissen (2002)
Franz Sedelmayer Self Self See fewer	Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
Sergei Skripal Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bild Live (2021)
Yuri Skuratov Self Self See fewer	Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
Anatoliy Sobchak Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Svoboda po russki (2006)
Donald Trump Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Apprentice (2004)
Vladimir Yakunin Self Self See fewer	Intonatsiya. Vladimir Yakunin (2010)
Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dokument utifrån (1971)
Valentin Yumashev Self Self See fewer	Hau du yu du (1988)
Tatyana Yumasheva Self Self See fewer	Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
Gennadiy Zyuganov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vremya (1968)