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?
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Point du Jour, Les Films du Balibari, Sundial Entertainment, ARTE
Keywords
- corruption
- election campaign
- presidential election
- intervention
- archive footage
- financial crisis
- spin doctor
- privatization
- 1990s
- russian oligarch
- interference
Links
Top Cast
Boris Yeltsin as Self (archive footage)
Tatyana Yumasheva as Self
Sergei Pugachev as Self
Anatoly Chubais as Self
Gennady Zyuganov as Self (archive footage)
Alexandr Korzhakov as Self
Mikhail Fridman as Self
Helmut Kohl as Self (archive footage)
Top Crew
Madeleine Leroyer · Director, Writer
Tim Toidze · Writer
Benoît Daniel · Composer
Olivier Bodin · Composer
Nicolas Peltier · Editor
Photos
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