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Documentary maker Peter Pomerantsev on Russia's journey to a new form of dictatorship: meeting a gangster, Vitaly. From 2015.

In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the transformation of the New Russia on its journey from communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship.

In a series of character studies, the subjects of Pomerantsev's reality TV documentaries, we glimpse the ways in which the Russian people have responded to and acted upon the opportunities of Putin's new world order. In this episode we meet Vitaly, the gangster-turned-filmmaker, who studied his favourite American mafia movies and then turned his auto-theft crimes into the subject of a hit drama series.

Written by Peter Pomerantsev

Read by Justin Salinger

Abridged by Robin Brooks

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in January 2015.

15 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Justin Salinger
Author Peter Pomerantsev
Abridger Robin Brooks
Producer Kirsteen Cameron

Broadcasts

  • Tue 27 Jan 2015 09:45
  • Wed 28 Jan 2015 00:30
  • Tue 15 Oct 2019 14:45
  • Wed 16 Oct 2019 02:45

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