Patriots

The threshold of the new millennium means a step backwards for Russia. Its new President, who was supposed to be an obedient puppet controlled by the oligarchs, longs to become an absolute ruler. He starts to systematically destroy anyone who stands in his way. The person who brought him to power, Boris Berezovsky, the most powerful of Russian tycoons, finds himself in the role of an improbable hero: no one else is able to protect the bashful germs of Russian democracy (disabled by Yeltsin’s era of corruption) from Putin. A stirring guide through the birth of a modern dictator. An extraordinarily impressive staging of an immersive conversational drama whose individual components are orchestrated in a perfectly shivering harmony.