Un Nouveau Russe DVD French ONLY - NEW

The film is a political and criminal thriller based on the novel Bolshaya Paika (The Big Slice) by Yuli Dubov, which is a fictionalized account of the rise of the real-life Russian billionaire and oligarch, Boris Berezovsky.\n--\nThe Premise: The movie begins with the apparent assassination of its central figure, Platon Makovsky (Vladimir Mashkov), one of the richest and most powerful men in post-Soviet Russia.\n--\nThe Narrative Structure: The rest of the film unfolds as a complex series of flashbacks. A tenacious, honest investigator is brought in to solve the assassination, and his interviews with Makovsky's remaining associates trigger the story of his life.\n--\nThe Rise to Power: The flashbacks detail Makovsky's meteoric rise to colossal wealth, beginning with his days as a brilliant university scientist in the late 1980s. Recognizing the economic chaos of the Perestroika era and the fall of the Soviet Union, Platon and a group of friends abandon science for the nascent private.