Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

52 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Nov. 18, 2021

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?

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

52 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Nov. 18, 2021

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?
Producers ARTE, RTS, Les Films du Balibari, Sundial Entertainment, Point du jour
Original title 1996, hold-up à Moscou
Directors Madeleine Leroyer
Writers Madeleine Leroyer, Tim Toidze

Cast

Boris Yeltsin

as Self (archive footage)

Sergei Pugachev

as Self

Anatoly Chubais

as Self

Gennady Zyuganov

as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Fridman

as Self

Helmut Kohl

as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

as Self (archive footage)

Grigoriy Yavlinskiy

as Self (archive footage)

Alexander Lebed

as Self (archive footage)

Yury Vlasov

as Self (archive footage)

Boris Berezovsky

as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Gusinsky

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Morris

as Self

Bill Clinton

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Dresner

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Shumate

as Self (archive footage)

Anatoly Kulikov

as Self

George Gorton

as Self (archive footage)

Naina Yeltsina

as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

as Self (archive footage)