The read
It runs a compact 52m.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
TMDB7.6/10
17 audience votes
Key crew
- Madeleine LeroyerDirector
- Madeleine LeroyerWriter
- Tim ToidzeWriter
- Benoît DanielOriginal Music Composer
- Olivier BodinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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)
Stills
Themes
corruptionelection campaignpresidential electioninterventionarchive footagefinancial crisisspin doctorprivatization1990srussian oligarchinterference