Produced by Academy-Award Nominee Mike Lerner (Hell and Back Again, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer)
Selected Press:
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"Gripping and Engaging"
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"Bombshell Documentary"
- Page Six |
"Jaw-dropping irony"
- The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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The Kleptocrats
Directed by
Havana Marking, Sam Hobkinson Run Time: 84 min
Public Performance Licensing: Starting At $299 Organizations & institutions please contact info@passionriver.com for a quote
Synopsis:
It is the world’s biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, abuse of power and international money laundering. A hot-shot financier embezzles $3.5 billion USD from Malaysia’s wealth fund 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad); money from the audacious scam flows into New York and The Hollywood, where the thieves court A-list celebrities and even finance Leonardo DiCaprio’s passion project “The Wolf of Wall Street”. But investigative journalists from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Hollywood Reporter trace the money trail and unravel the scheme, the US Department of Justice gets involved, the Prime Minister and his inner circle are implicated, assets are frozen, money is seized and the Malaysian people fight back. |
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