Russian spies attempted to interfere in the making of a film about Vladimir Putin, its director has claimed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to portray the Russian president on screen, and the leader’s digital likeness is placed in compromising situations throughout the new film, simply titled Putin.
In one shot, the president appears morose in a large nappy after apparently soiling himself.
Russian intelligence officers attempted to learn about the potentially humiliating anti-Putin contents of the film once they got wind of it, Patryk Vega, the director, has said.
The Polish filmmaker told The Telegraph that he and his crew were bombarded with messages prior to release, from people posing as US political advisors or Ukrainian film executives.
They were wanting etails about the film and Vega said that he was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars to hand over a copy of the script.