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During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Vladimir Mashkov ... Platon
Mariya Mironova ... Masha
Andrei Krasko ... Shmakov
Levan Uchaneishvili ... Larry
Mikhail Vasserbaum ... Mark
Sergei Yushkevich ... Viktor
Aleksandr Samoylenko ... Musa
Natalya Kolyakanova ... Nina
Aleksandr Baluyev ... Koretsky
Vladimir Gusev ... Lomov
Vladimir Steklov ... Belenky
Marat Basharov ... Koshkin
Vladimir Salnikov ... Daddy Gricha
Vladimir Golovin ... Akhmet
Anna Churina ... Journalist
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Also Known As:
Олигарх (Russia)
Ein neuer Russe (Germany)
Tycoon (International: English title)
Tycoon: A New Russian (USA)
Un nouveau Russe (France)
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Switzerland:128 min (Locarno Film Festival) | USA:123 min
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8 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Quantity, Not Quality, Yet Still Sketchy in the Details, 29 September 2003
6/10
Author: bluesdoctor from A Place is Just A Place

Russian mobsters (oligarchs) scheme and maneuver to make elicit millions from the days of Gorbachev till recent times. Basically an ordinary "Godfather"-like gangster film, except for its Russian setting. Based loosely on the rise and fall of rogue capitalist Boris Berezovsky, the film fudges sketchy historic details with abundant melodramatic posturing and substitutes quantity for quality. Never-ending plot complications can't make up for the essential emptiness. No character or relationship is depicted in depth or intimacy. Over and over we hear how brilliant the gang leader, Plato Makovski (Vladimir Mashkov), is, but never really see him being brilliant, never really glimpse the sausage-making behind his fabulous success.

The sympathetic depiction of the gang of oligarchs is suspiciously skewed. They are shown as a jolly crew of good guys trying to make the most of a corrupt system and have a good time along the way. One suspects the real oligarchs were/are much more sinister and violent.

For all its flaws, "Tycoon" has an uninterrupted manic drive that at least holds one's attention. At times, for example the boat outing and Plato's 44th birthday party, it almost, but not quite, takes off into a mad absurd Fellini-esque circus. The film is at its best satirizing Russian politics and power struggles, at its worst when Plato leadenly mopes like the morose and isolated Al Pacino of "Godfather III."

Of note is the beautiful Mariya Mironova as Maria ("Masha"), Plato's lover, a restless soulful self-possessed spirit who is never on screen long enough to be quite fully fleshed in. 6/10

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