Loyalty, ambition, and betrayal collide in Patriots, a gripping portrait of Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire kingmaker who shaped Russia's post-Soviet destiny, ushered Putin to power, and then became his mortal enemy.
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs, and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky (Stuhlbarg). “If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must,” he states. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. Putin starts his ruthless rise to the presidency and quickly moves from Berezovsky’s puppet to prosecutor, setting off a riveting near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two men.
