Citizen K
Documentary
6.683/10
|RUGB
|ru
|126 min
Release Date: 2019-12-13
Overview - The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Production Companies
Jigsaw ProductionsPassion PicturesStoryteller Productions
User Reviews
Stephen Campbell
6/10
_**Factually comprehensive but suffers from an over-idealisation of its subject**_ >_I am not hiding and I don't plan to become a political émigré. If it's a choice of forcing me out of the country or putting me in gaol, then they'll have to put me in gaol._ - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (July 3, 2003) As superficially entertaining a show as it was, _Sons of Anarchy_ always had one especially eg...
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SWITCH.
8/10
'Citizen K' makes an interesting companion piece to Herzog's 'Meeting Gorbachev', which captured the promise of 1989 and mourned what came next. Gibney's documentary is essential viewing for anyone needing a history lesson about Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, wants a frontline report on the current geopolitical landscape in Europe - including Ukraine - or just wants to know what it tak...
