The Making of a New Empire

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 95 min
  • Premiere: 1999. December 31.

Dutch documentary filmmaker Jos de Putter directs this portrait of Chechnya's charismatic leader Khoozh-Ahmend Noukhaev. The film shows the dashing leader touring about the strategically sensitive independent region of Russia as if he were a feudal lord. He doles out $100 bills to villagers, makes grandiose plans for the bombed out capital of Grozny, and dispenses with presidents at a whim.

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Jos de Putter

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Jos de Putter

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