Movie Description:
Plato Makovski, a renegade Russian entrepreneur whose seductive and brutal climb to the top in the 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 throughflashbacks involving a vividarray of gangsters, mistresses, childhood friends, idealistic intellectuals and trigger-happy veteransoffers an inside view of a country inwhich 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 his closest friendsuntil he topples.