Overview
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?
Director and 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)
- Michel Camdessus as Self
- Mikhail Gorbachev as Self (archive footage)
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