
From the director and producers of The Seven Five comes Operation Odessa, a true crime thriller about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who teamed up to sell a nuclear submarine to a Colombian drug cartel. A gangster epic that hopscotches from Brooklyn to Miami and Cali to Moscow, the documentary tells the story of three friends who set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel, and the DEA for the score of a lifetime. The tale became an international me... (Full plot summary below)
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From the director and producers of The Seven Five comes Operation Odessa, a true crime thriller about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who teamed up to sell a nuclear submarine to a Colombian drug cartel. A gangster epic that hopscotches from Brooklyn to Miami and Cali to Moscow, the documentary tells the story of three friends who set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel, and the DEA for the score of a lifetime. The tale became an international media sensation. But the truth about what really happened has remained an underworld myth - until now.
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| Reason OnlineGlenn GarvinYou can ignore the political implications and just enjoy Operation Odessa as a madcap black comedy about three guys who are half-genius and half-oaf blundering in and out of harrowingly scary situations. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMr. Russell has a fluid hand with the visuals, which are always clever-the "Miami Vice"-style graphics and pulse rate evoke the era in question, and the sense of heedless forward motion suggests the Cinema of Excess. |
| ABC Radio (Australia)CJ JohnsonAs rollicking a documentary about heavy criminals as you get ... This is wild stuff. If you love the 'Cocaine Cowboy' oeuvre you'll hoover this up. |
| User ReviewKong L"UN-FCKIN-BEWIEVABLE SUPER-ULTRA-GALACTICAL TOTALLY-FCKIN-INSANE" - #theKONGFILMS(TM) |
| User ReviewJoe ROne of the best docs I've seen in a while. A crazy story. |
| User ReviewKenneth LOne of the best docs I've seen in a while. A crazy story. |
| User ReviewSteve BPretty entertaining doc about an assortment of international ne'er-do-wells stationed in Miami who tried to obtain a military submarine for the Cali Cartel at the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Funny but also informative. 8.1 out of 10 |
| User ReviewValentine BEnjoyably doc that easily kept my attention with the charisma and audacity of it's three central players. |