BBFF26 The Oligarch and the Art Dealer

When Swiss “freeport king” Yves Bouvier and Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev build one of the world’s greatest private art collections, their alliance spectacularly implodes into a billion-dollar war. Spanning more than two decades, multiple countries and masterpieces by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Modigliani, Klimt, Picasso and Rothko, The Oligarch and the Art Dealer opens the door to a secretive world where art, money and power collide. Accusations of fraud, hidden fortunes, smear campaigns and a high-profile legal battle involving Sotheby’s turn a business relationship into a real-life thriller in which every version of the truth is contested. Featuring extraordinary access to the people and documents at the centre of the case, director Andreas Dalsgaard creates a gripping investigation into ambition, ego, wealth and the opaque machinery of the international art market.