“Putin,” a movie in which the eponymous main character is brought to life with the help of AI, hits German theaters this Thursday. The role of the President of Russia in the film is played by Polish actor Sławomir Sobala, but with the help of AI he gets the face of the real Vladimir Putin. This makes it similar to him, but not confusing. This should add another dimension to the debate about the use of AI in art. “The audience wanted to see the real Putin,” director Patrick Vega explained his approach to the Telegraph: “Even the best actor with a great mask cannot play the role of a man so famous throughout the world so well.”
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loud British newspaper report Vega used self-developed AI technology during production. So she believes she will soon be able to help colleagues and film and television productions will only need lead and supporting actors: “The entire world in the background and secondary characters will be created digitally,” she Are certain. Nevertheless, he assures that the AI used was just a tool, that emotional depth and realism were created by humans: “Real art comes from human experience, not artificial intelligence.”
According to preliminary discussions, the result is a “lavishly illustrated biography” of the Russian president, as dpa puts it. So the director is known for pornographic cinema and here he is pleased to see Putin, who, for example, shivers half-naked in a diaper on a hospital bed, then lies dirty on the floor and is shot by the staff. Is washed. Overall, Putin’s life is told retrospectively from the perspective of the year 2026. We see a president haunted by the ghosts of the past who used wars like Chechnya and Ukraine as a means of maintaining power. As a kind of horror film, “Putin” is not completely absurd movie theater, “but rather close to shocking reality.”
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