A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
Zhanna Agalakova / Croatia, Netherlands & France / 2025 / 90 min
En russisk journalist og hendes unge, vestligtsindede datter rejser tværs gennem Putins Rusland for at konfrontere sig selv og hinanden med deres politiske uenigheder.
Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova is proud of her country and her culture. She wants to pass on this pride to her daughter Alice, who is half Italian and attends a French international school. However, Zhanna’s multicultural daughter finds it difficult to understand the beauty of Putin’s Russia, and she blames her mother for spreading propaganda for the state and promoting Putin’s agenda. What role does Zhanna herself play in her country’s political development as a foreign correspondent and journalist?
‘A Little Gray Wolf Will Come’ starts in one place and ends in another. Along the way, both Zhanna and Alice reconsider their positions several times. As a reporter for the Russian media outlet Channel One, Zhanna finds her journalistic freedom increasingly restricted in the years leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and she ends up facing a moral choice between supporting her family and continuing her work reporting on Putin’s Russia.