Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

• Madeleine LeroyerDirector
• Madeleine LeroyerWriter
• Tim ToidzeWriter
• Benoît DanielOriginal Music Composer
• Olivier BodinOriginal Music Composer

• Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
• Tatyana YumashevaSelf
• Sergei PugachevSelf
• Anatoly ChubaisSelf
• Gennady ZyuganovSelf (archive footage)
• Alexandr KorzhakovSelf
• Mikhail FridmanSelf
• Helmut KohlSelf (archive footage)
• Michel CamdessusSelf
• Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
• Vladimir ZhirinovskySelf (archive footage)
• Grigoriy YavlinskiySelf (archive footage)