Who is Mr Putin? - such a question was raised at the Davos Forum in 2000. Then the room met with laughter, and representatives of the Russian delegation were not immediately able to answer.

The film is based on years-long investigations into two Russian journalists now living in Europe - Anastasia Kyrylenko and Vladimir Ivanidze, who have investigated Putin's ties with Russian criminals and set up criminal money-laundering schemes since the 1990s.