In the very first shots of the new trailer for The Wizard of the Kremlin, Moscow in 1990 is shown with an ice rink and the Iberian Gate on Red Square. As the saying goes, there is no need to watch any further. 🎬
⚠️ Context — The Iberian Gate is the reconstructed entrance linking Manezhnaya Square to Red Square; it was demolished in the Soviet period and rebuilt only in the 1990s, so showing it in Moscow in 1990 is an obvious anachronism. For Russian viewers, period details around late Soviet and early post-Soviet Moscow are highly legible, which is why visual mistakes like this are noticed immediately.
⚠️ Why it matters — The complaint is not really about one gate or one ice rink, but about trust: if the opening frames already get iconic Moscow geography wrong, viewers expect the film’s treatment of Russian history to be equally careless. In Russia, that kind of error quickly becomes shorthand for a foreign production that wants the atmosphere of the era without understanding its texture.
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