![]() ![]() The film, which first screened at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, last month, is a wild tale of how Tarzan, Miami playboy Juan Almeida, and Cuban spy Tony Yester came to run Miami for almost a decade thanks to their booming cocaine enterprise and the sophisticated use of boats and helicopters in trafficking the drugs. The result, Operation Odessa, will premiere this Saturday at 9 p.m. ![]() Turns out the $1,000 spent on paying off the Panamanian prison guard was one of Russell's best investments as a documentary filmmaker. "I took one look at him and said, 'This is absolutely a movie,'" Russell says. It was then that Russell knew he had his man. As the door opened, Russell laid eyes on the maniac who had been incarcerated on charges of trafficking women and selling drugs. When the guard let Russell in, he sprinted across the yard where inmates were playing soccer and barreled toward a steel door that looked as of it were pulled straight from Mad Max. ![]() He had $1,000 to pay off a prison guard - $500 to get him in and $500 to make sure he left the facility unscathed. Fainberg had been convicted of helping to orchestrate the sale of a $35 million Soviet submarine to the Cali Cartel in order to transport cocaine from Colombia to the United States and Canada.Īfter communicating with Tarzan, who had a BlackBerry inside the prison, Russell headed to Panama. The filmmaker had been tipped off by a DEA agent that Ludwig Fainberg, known as "Tarzan," was in the jailhouse. And he was hoping - or more like praying - a guard at a prison deep in a Panamanian jungle wouldn't screw him over. Seven years ago, filmmaker Tiller Russell was preparing to meet with the former Russian mobster at the center of Miami's craziest true-crime caper of the '90s. ![]()
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