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Jan 15, 2020 · 'Citizen K' is a good profile of a Russian oligarch-turned-exile—but it's an even better history of Putin's power stranglehold. ... “Gangster capitalism” becomes the name of the game, along ...
Nov 21, 2019 · Review: How Russia’s wealthiest oligarch became part of the resistance in ‘Citizen K’. Filmmaker Alex Gibney does not shy away from complexity, quite the contrary. As the compelling ...
Oct 3, 2019 · I f Vladimir Putin is the enigmatic Mr Hyde of 21st-century Russia, then Mikhail Khodorkovsky is its Dr Jekyll. He’s an oligarch, a plutocrat, a political player and a contemporary of Putin who ...
Nov 20, 2019 · The final act of the film finds Gibney struggling to strike a balance between Khodorkovsky as a man, and Khodorkovsky as a symbol of Russia’s power struggle. In both regards, the subject is too ...
- A Former Oligarch in Exile
- The Perfect Documentarian For This Story
- Citizen K: Conclusion
After Putin took control, many oligarchs aligned themselves with the Kremlin, as the President sought to weed out those in the opposition, including the late Boris Berezovsky (who would be a fascinating documentary subject alone) and charge them for illegal activities regarding their acquired wealth, including tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement. ...
In the current era of politics, the role of this former oligarch is a significant one, and Gibneymatches it with a significant documentary that’s deeply researched, remarkably constructed, and emotionally engaging for those coming in with even the littlest knowledge or care about what’s been going on in Russia over the past twenty years. As demonst...
There’s some historical crossover with the relatively recent documentary Putin’s Witnessesbut the distinctive voices here, from both director and character, in addition to the greater provision of contextual and historical details, make for a greater experience — the most compelling work about Russian politics in a while. The access to Mikhail Khod...
- Musanna Ahmed
Dec 14, 2019 · Prolific documentarist Alex Gibney uses Khodorkovsky’s rise and fall to consider Russia’s Wild West, seven years in which seven oligarchs bought up half the economy, as below them chaotic new market forces shocked the nation with destitution and Sicilian levels of gangster mayhem, while Boris Yeltsin slumped zombie-like in the Kremlin ...
Aug 31, 2019 · Film Review: ‘Citizen K’ Mikhail Khodorkovsky's wild ride from oligarch to prisoner to anti-Putin dissident is rich material for Alex Gibney's latest deep-dive documentary.
