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How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire - Selfridges Teaser

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A vodka-fuelled journey to the heart of the Russian revolution. Follow filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn as he uncovers his family's long-lost vodka factory in Ukraine, and attempts to revive the brand - and bring prosperity back to his great-grandparents' village - by entering the cut-throat world of international business.

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Vodka Empire: Ep 1 What Vodka Empire?
A vodka-fuelled journey to the heart of the Russian revolution. Follow filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn as he uncovers his family's long-lost vodka factory in Ukraine, and attempts to revive the brand - and bring prosperity back to his great-grandparents' village - by entering the cut-throat world of international business.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 12 From the Depths of Ukraine to...
After pitching the film at the Channel 4 British Documentary Foundation's "Good Pitch", Dan and Christo go to visit ad agency Saatchi and Saatchi. Here they are met with huge enthusiasm for the project - but Dan wonders whether they will actually do anything concrete.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 11 Baltic Bravado
The low point of the investors dropping out sparks a plan: why not fly out to Riga and meet with film producer Christo Hird against a stark post-Communist background? The meeting is revealing in that Christo feels that the investors have dropped out because the business looks unpromising - and he reveals that success of launching the brand does not equate to success at making the film. For the first time the goals of Dan and Christo are not the same! In the middle of the episode there is a sudden Vodka Club commercial.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 8 Zorokovich's Return
Dan is shown around his great-grandfather Ilya's distillery. It looks like the set of an early Science Fiction film - during the tour he is shown his great-grandfather's safe - closely guarded by a couple of men - who are proud to show it to Dan.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 5 Kiev Kurfuffles
Dan moves on to Kiev and makes a huge breakthrough - he discovers that the name Douboviazovka is a remote village which contains a sugar factory. At last he seems to have discovered his grandmother Maroussia's childhood estate and home - but worries it will probably be totally changed and horrible!

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 3 What Kind of Damaged Individual?
Following a chance discovery of his grandmother's diaries, Dan Edelstyn discovers he is heir to a vodka factory in the Ukraine and sets about becoming a 21st-century vodka baron. In the third episode of this epic new series, Dan tells us a little more about himself.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Prologue
Dan Edelstyn's epic new documentary series How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire. A chance discovery of his grandmother's diaries leads Dan to discover that he is heir to a vodka factory. Can he revive the family brand by importing the drink into the UK? And how will a novice cope in the cut-throat world of big business? Watch the story unravel, exclusively on Babelgum.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 15 A Recipe for Success?
After reaching enlightenment in the laboratory - where Dan discovers the secrets of his ancestors he expects to set the alcohol world alight with a recipe from God.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 14 The Suited Messiah
It turns out that much of Dan's problem with the villagers boils down to an image issue - his new adviser Andy Kuzik encourages him to turn over a new leaf and effectively become 'the suited messiah'.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
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Vodka Empire: Ep 13 Up and Down in Douboviazovka
Dan's return to his ancestral village is far from triumphant. The fantasy that he would be carried through the streets amidst delighted fanfare is swiftly shattered as he is almost run out of town. He wonders whether he should keep on with the whole adventure at all.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.
 

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