Jude Law, the Red Carpet Wizard at the Venice Film Festival 2025

It didn’t need a wand to understand it: today the Red Carpet Wizard is unquestionably Jude Law. At the Venice Film Festival The premiere of Olivier Assayas’s film is staged, The wizard of the Kremlinin which Jude interprets Vladimir Putin. Nothing further from the actor that more than many others embodies English divism, all charming, talent and irony.

At his side, a stellar cast: Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Will Keen, Tom Sturridge, Jeffrey Wright And Andrei Zayatstogether with the author Giuliano da Empoli – from which the 2022 novel that inspired the film comes to life – and to the writer Emmanuel Carrèrewho signs the script.

In the official competition, the film tells the political rise of Vladimir Putin, played by Law, led in the shadow by Vadim Baraov (Paul Dano), former avant -garde artist and television producer, who becomes the spin Doctor of the leader and supreme manipulator of Russian politics: the wizard of the Kremlin, in fact.

Jude Law.

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Jude Law.

Jude Law.

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Andrei Zayats Jude Law Alicia Vikander and Paul Dano.

Andrei Zayats, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander and Paul Dano.

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Jude Law.

Jude Law.

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Jude Law.

Jude Law.

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Jude Law.

Jude Law.

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Alicia Vikander and Olivier Assayas.

Alicia Vikander and Olivier Assayas.

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Paul Dano.

Paul Dano.

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Jeffrey Wright.

Jeffrey Wright.

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Paul Dano.

Paul Dano.

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Alicia Vikander.

Alicia Vikander.

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Alicia Vikander.

Alicia Vikander.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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