“Itisafilmfromanextendedseries.Itishardtosaywhoisthemaincharacterof“TheSovietElegy.”Therearemorethanahundredfacesofourcompatriots.But,ofcourse,itisnotbychancethatitisthedestinyofafamouspoliticalfigure,BorisNikolayevitchYeltsin,thatbearsaspecialaccentinthefilm.Thoughhegottopowerfollowingquitetypicalways,hisuncommoncharacterputshimoutoftheordinary,andintheauthor’sopinionitmaybedeterminedbyhisuncommonhumannature.Ourheroexistswithinthetragicpatternofthesovietsocialistlife.Heisacharacterofadrama,ofwhichheisoneoftheauthors.“TheSovietElegy”canhardlybecalledadocumentaryfilminthepropersense.Ofcourse,theauthorguaranteestheaccuracyofchronology,butheinsistsonanartisticmodeofthinking,notonapoliticalorhistoricalinvestigation.”
