This year has brought more evidence to cement Alex Gibney’s reputation as the hardest working man in documentary film. His six-part documentary series Why We Hate, executive-produced with Steven Sp…
, executive-produced with Steven Spielberg, debuted on Discovery Channel last month. Earlier this year his documentary—about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes—hit HBO. And his latest documentary,tells the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a “Russian oligarch-turned dissident,” who built a vast fortune in the years of “Wild West capitalism” that flourished after the Soviet Union’s collapse. Some estimates put his net worth at its height at $15 billion.
“Khodorkovsky was trying to move Yukos into compliance with international business rules and regulations so that he could enter into a massive merger potentially with ExxonMobil,” the director comments. “Well, oil is sometimes regarded as a state asset. I think Putin took a very dim view both of the idea that Khodorkovsky would bring a transparent business model to what was essentially a gangster capitalist model, and also that ExxonMobil would own a large portion of Russia’s oil industry.
That did not sit well with Putin. Within no time, Khodorkovsky was up on charges of fraud and tax evasion. He was convicted and dispatched to Siberia in chains.“He spent 10 years in prison,” Gibney states. “Then his sentence was extended…It seemed like [Putin] was going to throw away the key.” People on the outs with Putin have a habit of turning up dead, either within Russia or outside of it, so Khodorkovsky lives in a certain amount of peril—the sword of Vladimir, so to speak, hanging over his head.
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