A controversial biopic by Vladimir Putin will hit theaters on January 10. The production of Putinthe name of the film, stands out after having used artificial intelligence to place the president’s face on the body of Polish actor Slawomir Sobala. Besides, have received purchase requests from the Russian intelligence services.
According to the Norwegian media the performer has gained great popularity in his country for “dubbing Putin in television advertisements and parodies, and also in a musical.” “The public needed to see the real Putin on the screen“says the director, Patryk Vega, in an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraphand collected by digital.
It is difficult to interpret the Russian president and the solution was “let Sobala study Putin’s body language for two years and then use artificial intelligence (AI). to put Putin’s face on the interpreter“. When the director spoke to the press about his film project during the Cannes festival last spring, he stated that Russian intelligence had tried to get hold of the script.
“I had a very funny experience with the Russian secret services. They took all my team’s phone numbers and started manipulating them,” says the head of the filming. “They wrote things like: ‘I’m an aide to a congressman in South Dakota. “My boss would like to pay 100,000 euros for a screening of the film.”.
However, and according to the information released by the media, “the director was not intimidated“. “I started a conversation with them and pretended to be a costume designer. I started negotiating a price of almost 200,000 euros. I told them they had to send me a down payment of 10,000. They agreed and I gave them the address of the Polish Intelligence Agency Wywiadu.” Finally, they were identified.
“Putin only understands one language, and that is force. Psychology teaches us that giving in to an aggressor only fuels his aggression. Therefore, the West must stop fooling itself into believing that appeasement towards Putin can bring some real benefits” , the filmmaker concludes in the conversation.
