DVD
Citizen K
Languages
In Russian and English, with English subtitles; closed-captioned.
Performers
Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Greenwich Entertainment, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Citizen K is an intimate yet sweeping look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident. Benefitting from the chaos that ensued after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., Khodorkovsky was able to amass a fortune in financing and oil production, and became the richest man in Russia. But when he accused the new Putin regime of corruption, Khodorovksy was arrested, his assets were seized, and he was sentenced to more than ten years in prison. Today, as an exile living in London, he continues to speak out against Putin's two-decade stranglehold on power. Expertly researched and photographed, Gibney uses Khodorkovsky's story as a way to explore the complex interplay between oligarchy and government and its destructive effort on democracy, in Russia and beyond.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 2019.