During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
Tycoon: A New Russian is a 2002 Russian movie directed by Pavel Lungin. The movie is based on the book The Lion's Share by Yuli Dubov, who later went on to work for oligarch Boris Abramovich Berezovsky.
