Tycoon (2002 film)
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| Tycoon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pavel Lungin |
| Starring | Vladimir Mashkov Mariya Mironova |
| Music by | Leonid Desyatnikov |
| Editing by | Sophie Brunet |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| Country | Russia France Germany |
| Language | Russian |
| IMDb profile | |
Tycoon: A New Russian (Russian: Олигарх) is a 2002 Russian movie directed by Pavel Lungin.
During the Mikhail Gorbachev years, Platon Makovsky and four buddies of him are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
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.)
