Director: Patrick Forbes
Photography: Jon Sayers
Editor: Gregor Lyon
Music: Justin Nicholls
Sound: Chris Lebbert, Goeff Price
With: Boris Berezovsky
Narrator: Sir Ian Holm
Producers: Patrick Forbes, Jo Durden-Smith
Executive Producers: Richard Klein, Nicolas Kent
Production: Oxford Film and Television production for BBC
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
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First Broadcast: 8.12.2005, 21:00, BBC2 1.2 million
Boris Berezovsky has amassed a fortune of billions during the self-service years of the Yeltsin era. He became a minister and rose to be the gray eminence in the state of Russia. When the president’s health waned, he made a fatally wrong decision: he supported Putin, who declared him the number one enemy of the state as soon as he assumed power. Now living in England, Berezovsky pulls strings to topple his former protégé. The BBC series "Russian Godfathers" provides finely ironic portraits of Russian oligarchs who do everything in their power to reclaim lost influence in their home country.