Connected.

A thirty-year friendship that crossed an empire, a generation, and a closing window of history.

Connected is a feature documentary directed by Vera Krichevskaya about the decades-long bond between Augie K Fabela II — the American entrepreneur who would later found VEON — and Dr. Dmitry Zimin, the eighty-eight-year-old former Soviet physicist preparing for an assisted death in Switzerland.

Their story begins in Moscow in 1990. A young Mexican-American businessman, raised on the post–Cold War promise of Reagan and Gorbachev, meets a senior Soviet scientist whose father had been branded an "enemy of the people" under Stalin. Together they help build one of the first major Russian technology companies — and watch, decades later, as the optimism of that opening narrows into authoritarianism and war.

Filmed in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Connected follows their final journey together: a road trip through memory, principle, and a friendship that outlasted two empires. It is a meditation on legacy — on what one chooses to stand for when the world that made you is being unmade.