It was a stranger than fiction bromance that brought together Russian gangster Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, black market luxury car importer Juan Almeida, and international drug trafficker Nelson “Tony” Yester, and it’s our good fortune they each trust director Tiller Russell and his crew as much as they do. Under the watchful eye of an interagency task force (dubbed Operation Odessa, sharing the film’s title), these men teamed up when DEA feared the cartels and Russian mob would unite. The entertaining documentary recounts the balls it took for them to sell a Soviet submarine to Medelin cartel for $35 million.
Directed by Russell, his subjects are cut from the same cloth as those in his previous film The Seven Five, which told the story of some of the NYPD’s dirtiest cops. They are wheelers and dealers, and each made men: “Tarzan” is a small-time mobster from Brooklyn who used to start fires; Almeida,...
Directed by Russell, his subjects are cut from the same cloth as those in his previous film The Seven Five, which told the story of some of the NYPD’s dirtiest cops. They are wheelers and dealers, and each made men: “Tarzan” is a small-time mobster from Brooklyn who used to start fires; Almeida,...
- 3/10/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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