Podcast: Berlinale 8 - Khodorkovsky Caged Oligarch

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

Category: Reviews

Published on Friday, 15 April 2011 19:59

Written by David D'Arcy

What do you give the billionaire Russian oligarch who has everything? A cage. The Kremlin is locking Mikhail Khodorkovsky up for the next 14 years.

Laste year's Berlinale showed Nenette, Nicholas Philibert's doc about a caged orangutan in a Paris zoo. Calling Kohodorkovsky's prison a zoo would be complimentary, but here's a question -- which has the best food, a French zoo, or a Russian prison?

Cyril Tuschi’s investigative oli-doc doesn’t find much evidence of criminality on the part of Khodorkovsky, who ran Lukos, a huge Russian oil company. Yet it does show you what happens to a rich Russian who decides to get involved in politics. Have you seen any BP executives in a US prison recently? The evidence implicating them is still washing up on the shores of Louisiana.

David D’Arcy saw Khodorkovsky at the 2011 Berlinale.

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