Thief in Law

Director: Alexander Gentelev
Production: Sacha Klein / Sasha Klein Productions LTD, 2007, Israel

The structure, mechanisms, history, heroes and the real scope of Russian organized crime’s activity, on film. The ways the Soviet system has created it’s like in the form of an underground criminal state on its own territory, the ways this shadow state has absorbed and replaced the new Russia’s official authorities. for the first time ever, Russia’s criminal bosses, former criminals turned reputable businessmen and politicians, tell the story of their influence on the country’s economy and politics, of their winning of Russia and their crusade on the rest of the world.