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Two great DVDs for a Yeltsin Era Memorial Film Festival
"Spinning Boris," made for Showtime, and "Tycoon," directed by Pavel Loungine, who also did "Taxi Blues," which took place during Perestroika.
"Tycoon" is loosely based on the rise and fall of oligarch Boris Beresovsky, the exiled billionaire who paid Alexander Litvinenko to write "Blowing Up Russia."
This movie is said to lay out the details of why Beresovsky and Putin have hated each other so much for so long. Cherchez la femme, so to speak.
Some of the characters in "Spinning Boris" also appear in "Tycoon," but the names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Dick Morris and Bill Clinton probably would NOT enjoy attending this little film festival, by the way.