Khodorkovsky (2011)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Today, he's one of the world's most famous political prisoners. A story of Shakespearean proportions, The New York Times has reported on Khodorkovsky in both its news and op-ed pages. Fascinating interviews with Khodorkovsky (sometimes sitting in a glass box in the courtroom), members of his family, and others portray a country transformed from its moribund Communist past to one in which power-hungry politicians are abetted by a corrupt,
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Jean-Marc Barr
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Harvey Friedman
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Cyril Tuschi
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Mikhail Borisovich Khodor...
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Marina Khodorkovskaya
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Lena Khodorkovskaya
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Pavel Khodorkovsky
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Anton Drel
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Joschka Fischer
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Maksim Valetsky
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Leonid Nevzlin
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Aleksei Kondaurov
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Irina Yasina
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Christian Michel
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Ben Aris
Ben Aris
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (4)
Helps to make Khodorkovsky more of a reality than the enigma he threatens to become.
Top Critic"Khodorkovsky" is a curious and admirable documentary, the product of one filmmaker's inability to let go of a story.
Navigating a tangled tale such as this is like entering a hall of mirrors. "Khodorkovsky" doesn't do a good enough job of Windexing them.
It's a perfect fit for the blend of Greek tragedy, spaghetti Western and judicial farce that defines business and politics in the New Russia.
The gripping documentary "Khodor-kovsky'' tells how Russia's richest man became its most famous political prisoner.
Tuschi leans too far into an admiring position, and you thirst for some commonsense critique. It's all a bit rich.
It may be fuzzy around its edges, but inside it's hard as steel.
As Tuschi's film digs deeper, it seems to offer less information. Clearly, many people have been, and still are, affected by this phantom of a subject. This story is not over.
Features frank, informative interviews (including one with Khodorkovsky after his second trial) and raises some important questions.
A documentary that takes fewer prisoners than Putin's KGB, Tuschi's study of Russian power politics is smart, scary and sobering.
Tuschi paints a complex portrait of corrupted power.
This film is a commanding insight into Putin's Russia.
Tuschi collates the evidence masterfully - TV footage, documents, interviews with ex-colleagues - to substantiate what much of the world is already convinced of.
A convincing picture of a principled man prepared to become a jailed martyr if that's what it took to rally the people behind him.
An interview with Khodorkovsky, vox pops with ordinary Russians and some weird animation fail to secure contributions of great significance, let alone clarify basic issues of guilt or innocence.
It's an engaging, personal story full of moving details.
Edged with cynicism and wit, Tuschi's film can't hide its admiration - but real answers lurk tantalisingly out of reach.
There is a Catch 22 lurking in the murkiness of this film but most will be challenged to find it.
If Khodorkovsky is not making an especially new argument, it is making it forcefully and engagingly. The form constitutes its own politics, pure or not.
A fascinating documentary more about Khodorkovsky the "player" than about the social and political contradictions of post-Soviet Russia.
It's unlikely to enflame American audiences with less of a stake in Russia's political goings-on, but works as a persuasive portrait of a politically toxic situation.
Audience Reviews for Khodorkovsky
Instead I recommend watching great documentary "The Oligarchs: The Struggle for Russia" by Alexander Gentelev.
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- Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky: Elections alone won't build a civil society.
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Foreign Titles
- Der Fall Chodorkowski (DE)
