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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker delivers one of his strongest explorations of global politics in considering the strange case of . Once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely leader of the anti-Putin movement. In tracking s story, creates a compelling portrait of post-Soviet Russia, a nation caught between radically divergent political models - and where fortunes can transform overnight. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of chaos and opportunity. With laws lagging behind socioeconomic change, Russia fomented a kind of gangster capitalism. took advantage of the privatization of state assets, created Russias first commercial bank, and built Yukos, Russias biggest oil company. His success in business was accompanied by a level of political influence that would prove precarious. In 2003, just months after publicly criticizing corruption within s government, was arrested for fraud, and Yukos shares were frozen and conveyed to the Russian state. He was found guilty, and sentenced to nine years incarceration. Then, in 2010, was hit with new charges of embezzlement and money laundering: he was essentially accused by the state of stealing his own oil, in what many recognized as a show trial.
Narrated by and brimming with insightful interviews with various Russian journalists, business-people, and legal experts, plays like a political thriller, revealing parallels between the ways and navigated modern Russias Wild West atmosphere for personal gain. was eventually pardoned and now lives in exile in England, where, in a stunning reversal, this former oligarch has become an advocate for democracy and human rights in Russia.
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