Granted unprecedented access to both Putin's professional and personal worlds| Oscar®-winning writer and director Oliver Stone (Platoon| JFK) with the help of his longtime documentary producer Fernando Sulichin| interviewed the Russian leader more than a dozen times over the course of two years| most recently in February following the U.S. presidential elections. Since first becoming the president of Russia in 2000| Putin has never before spoken at such length or in such detail to a Western interviewer| leaving no topic off limits. In scope and depth| THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS recalls The Nixon Interviews| the series of conversations between David
Frost and Richard Nixon that aired in the spring of 1977| 40 years ago.