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A New Russian is a Russian movie

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23.04.2003

Tycoon: A New Russian (Russian: Олигарх, romanized: Oligarch) is a 2002 Russian movie directed by Pavel Loungine (or Lungin).

Plot

During the Mikhail Gorbachev years, Platon Makovsky and four buddies of his are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia. But as such, he and his friends are drawn more and more into relations with suspect organizations. They also have to face ever more brutal attempts to subjugate them by the Kremlin. Makovsky attempts to compete with this ever-present political power, by becoming as "creating a Kremlin" himself.

Олигарх (фильм)

Background

The film is based on "Bolshaya Paika" ("The Big Slice") - a novel by Yuli Dubov, depicting the real biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and his partners. Dubov was Berezovsky's partner himself, and a president of his LogoVAZ company. The novel is claimed to be historically precise in many aspects. The names of the characters were changed from their real life counterparts, though keeping resemblance (e.g. Boris Berezovsky, who changed his name to Platon Elenin in exile in 2004, to Platon Makovsky, Badri Patarkatsishvili to Lari Teishvili, etc.)

In June 2009, Dubov and Berezovsky were convicted in absentia (at that time, they were both living in exile in England) in a Russian court for the events that served as the basis for the book to 9 and 13 years of imprisonment respectively. The book served as one of the pieces of evidence against them.

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    Persons

    Name Born / Since / At Died Languages
    1Владимир  ЗолотницкийВладимир Золотницкий05.05.196909.10.2005ru
    2Andrei KraskoAndrei Krasko10.08.195704.07.2006en, fr, ru
    3Badri  PatarkatsishviliBadri Patarkatsishvili31.10.195512.02.2006de, en, fr, lv, pl, ru
    4Boris BerezovskyBoris Berezovsky23.01.194623.03.2013de, en, fr, lt, lv, pl, ru, ua
    5Vladimirs  GolovinsVladimirs Golovins26.04.194018.10.2010lv, ru
    6Владимир  КашпурВладимир Кашпур26.10.192617.10.2009ru
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