240 minutes. User rating: 7.9/10 (imdb. com) TV adaptation of the novel, nominated for the Golden Globe Award. Kane and Abel were born on the same day on both sides of the Atlantic in the same year. William Kane was born into one of the wealthiest families in Boston and grew up to become a banker on Wall Street. Abel Rosnovski was born in rural Poland and had to spend many years in a prisoner of war camp in Siberia before heading to New York and ultimately creating one of the world's largest chain hotels. The confrontation between these two people vying for power and profit will make the world's financial capital tremble with fear.