Our New President (2018)

Directed by

Maxim Pozdorovkin

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign using only footage from Russian state-sponsored media. It shows how Russian news outlets hyped the election and spread false information, leading many ordinary Russians to act irrationally.

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What happens

Our New President is a 2018 documentary produced by Third Party Films. It follows the story of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and is told entirely through footage from Russian state-sponsored media. Our New President is a satire about the Russian media and its take on American politics. The film was originally made as an amateur short 12 minute collage of short clips from Russian media outlets and amateur clips by Russians for Field of Vision. It was subsequently expanded into a full-length documentary, showing how the Russian media (especially Russia 1, Russia Today and NTV) overhyped the election of Trump in a Russo-centric manner, falsified information leading common Russian people to behave irrationally. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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