11. Power (Vlast)
Site Score: 1, IMDb Score: 2 Overall Score: 3
Directed by Cathryn Collins
Year: 2010
Cathryn Collins tells us a thrilling story of modern Russia and how it doesn’t pay to go against the Kremlin, regardless of who sits in it, be it the Tsar, Stalin or Putin. Mikhail Khodorkovsky experienced that first hand. The moment he tried to go against the wishes (and more importantly, interests) of Vladimir Vladimirovich, he went overnight from the richest man in Russia and one of the richest in the world to a prisoner. At the time of film’s premiere, he was still serving his sentence but was pardoned in 2013, after Hans-Dietrich Genscher pleaded Putin for his release. The film paints a grim picture of today’s Russia and its future under Putin.
