IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1269884/
Date of Birth:7 October 1952, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Height:5' 7" (1.7 m)
Trademarks:Small height. Highly recognizable voice tone (also emulated and shared by Dmitry Medvedev) Highly staged public image stunts like diving with an archeological expedition, flying with birds using special glider and regular judo sessions, where he always won. Highly uses contradictory statments in his speeches. As a president hired Dmitry Medvedev as a prime minister while Medvedev himself hired him.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney delivers one of his strongest explorations of global politics in considering the strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely leader of the anti-Putin movement. In tracking Mikhail Khodorkovsky's story, Alex Gibney creates a compelling portrait of post-Soviet Russia, a nation caught between radically divergent political models - and where fortunes can transform overnight. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of chaos and opportunity. With laws lagging behind socioeconomic change, Russia fomented a kind of gangster capitalism. Mikhail Khodorkovsky took advantage of the privatization of state assets, created Russia's first commercial bank, and built Yukos, Russia's biggest oil company. His success in business was accompanied by a level of political influence that would.
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.