公民K

2003年，俄罗斯最富有的人之一米哈伊尔·霍多尔科夫斯基因逃税开始服刑10年。许多人认为，他的下台对当时刚刚当选的俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京构成了挑战。霍多尔科夫斯基在西伯利亚监狱服刑期间，成为世界著名的异见人士。如今，流亡伦敦的他继续与普京的掌权作斗争。影片在英国、俄罗斯和德国拍摄的历程当中，《公民K》重新审视了俄罗斯的权力之争。Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney delivers one of his strongest explorations of global politics in considering the strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky 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 Mikhail Khodorkovsky's story, Alex Gibney 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. Mikhail Khodorkovsky took advantage of the privatization of state assets, created Russia's first commercial bank, and built Yukos, Russia's biggest oil company. His success in business was accompanied by a level of political influence that would ...