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Original Title: Erzfreunde - Trump und Putin
Status
Released
Release
2020
Runtime
1h 30m
"Putin and Trump: two rivals, each on a mission to make his country “great again”"
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 2016, but over time the relationship between the two heads of state has had its ups and downs. Are they friends or enemies? Has their mutual admiration turned into mutual distrust?
33 Cast Members
Liane Rudolph
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pyotr Tolstoy
Self - Politician
Vladimir Pozner
Self - Journalist
Yevgenia Albats
Self - Journalist
Mikhail Zygar
Self - Journalist
Ivan Kurilla
Self - Historian
David Herszenhorn
Self - Journalist
Sergey Karaganov
Self - Politologist
Vladimir Yakunin
Self - Businessman
Mikhail Idov
Self - Journalist
Andrey Kolesnikov
Self - Politologist
Angela Stent
Self - Politologist
Matthew Rojansky
Self - Politologist
Pavel Felgenhauer
Self - Military Analyst
Anton Troianovski
Self - Journalist
Alexis Rodzianko
Self - AmCham President
Donald Trump
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Melania Trump
Self - D. Trump's Wife (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self - Politician (archive footage)
