Tycoon

Tycoon: A New Russian is a 2002 Russian movie directed by Pavel Lungin. The movie is based on the book The Lion's Share (Bolshaya Paika) by Yuli Dubov, who later went on to work for oligarch, Boris Abramovich Berezovsky. Plot During the Mikhail Gorbachev years, Platon Makovsky and four buddies of his are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia. But as such, he and his friends are drawn more and more into relations with suspect organizations. They also have to face ever more brutal attempts to subjugate them by the Kremlin. Makovsky attempts to compete with this ever-present political power, by becoming as "creating a Kremlin" himself. Characters Platon Makovsky - Vladimir Mashkov Mariya - Mariya Mironova Shmakov - Andrey Krasko Larri Teishvili - Levan Uchaneishvili Mark Tseytlin - Mikhail Vasserbaum Viktor Sysoyev - Sergey Yushkevich Musa Tariyev - Aleksandr Samoylenko Nina - Irina Kolyakanova General Koretskiy - Aleksandr Baluev Nikolai Lomov - Vladimir Gusev Pasha Belenkiy - Vladimir Steklov Koshkin - Marat Basharov Papa Grisha - Vladimir Salnikov Akhmet Tashkentsky - Vladimir Golovin Boat Captain - Vladimir Kashpur Journalist - Anna Churina Background The film is based on "Bolshaya Paika" ("The Big Slice") - a novel by Yuli Dubov, depicting the real biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and his partners. Dubov was Berezovsky's partner himself, and a president of his LogoVAZ company. The novel is claimed to be historically precise in many aspects. The names of the characters were changed from their real life counterparts, though keeping resemblance (e.g. Boris Berezovsky, who changed his name to Platon Elenin in exile in 2004, to Platon Makovsky, Badri Patarkatsishvili to Lari Teishvili, etc.)