Condensing the career of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky into a feature documentary was never going to be easy. The difficulty is not simply that Khodorkovsky has had a protean presence in Russian public life. An opportunist and eventual oligarch after the fall of the Soviet Union (he was the country’s richest man), he became a prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin and is now seen as a reformist voice.
New York Times: Trying to pin down a Russian oligarch (Film Review)
Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky attends a photocall for the film "Citizen K" on August 31, 2019 presented out of competition during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido.
