Citizen K

Alex Gibney's Oscar-nominated, critically acclaimed, fascinating, educational, insightful, 126-minute documentary that consists of news clips, archival film footage, photographs, and interview snippets with journalists Martin Sixsmith and Talyana Lysoba, business partners Leonid Nevylin and Platon Lebedev, NTV President Igor Malashenko, and attorneys Anton Drel, Maria Logan, and Vasily Aleksanyan to present an indepth, multilayered look into the inner workings of Russia, including politics, government, corruption, and the oligarchy, after the breakup of the Soviet Union from the perspective of one time powerful, influential, richest businessman in Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who amassed his fortune in financing and oil, served 10 years of a 13-year sentence for allegedly illegal shenanigans, often faced off against arrogant and egotistical President Vladimir Putin, and eventually exiled in London as a political dissident.
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