Tycoon: A New Russian (2003) Rating: Starring: Andrei Krasko, Vladimir Mashkov, Maria Mironova, Sergei Oshkevich, Alexandre Samoilenko, Mikael Vasserbaum Director: Pavel Lounguine Category: Avant Garde, Foreign Studio: New Yorker Subtitles: English Length: 128 mins Want to buy?           "A Godfather-like crime epic."-Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide A stylish, slick crime drama based on the life of notorious billionaire Boris Berezovsky, TYCOON follows the life of Plato Makovski, a renegade Russian entrepreneur whose seductive and brutal climb to the top in post-Soviet era flourishes as the line between business, crime and politics breaks down. Opening with Plato's assassination by car bomb, an investigation of his life through flashbacks involving a vivid array of gangster, mistresses, childhood friends, idealistic intellectuals and trigger-happy veterans offers an inside view of a country in which gangsters and greedy politicians conspire to rub out their enemies. Building a media empire, Plato uses his genius to become a monster, unhesitatingly sacrificing his ideals and closest friends until he topples. Compared by critics to SCARFACE and THE GODFATHER SAGA, TYCOON is an epic tale of a visionary and scoundrel, and, in the end, a bridge between the old Russia and the new.