“It is a
film fro
m an exte
nded se
ries. It i
s hard t
o say w
ho is t
he main c
haracter o
f “The Sov
iet Elegy.”
There are m
ore than a hu
ndred faces of
our compatrio
ts. But, of c
ourse, it is
not by chan
ce that it
is the des
tiny of a fa
mous political
figure, Bo
ris Nikolayevi
tch Yelt
sin, that
bears
a special
accent in the
film. Thoug
h he got to p
ower followin
g quite typi
cal ways, his
uncommon chara
cter puts h
im out of
the ordinar
y, and in
the author’s o
pinion it
may be
determi
ned by
his uncommon
human nature.
Our hero e
xists wi
thin the tr
agic patter
n of the soviet
socialist
life. He is a
character
of a dr
ama, o
f which he
is one of the
authors. “The
Soviet Elegy” c
an hardly
be called a
documentary
film in the
proper s
ense. Of
course, th
e author guar
antees th
e accuracy of
chronolo
gy, but
he insists
on an art
istic mode of
thinking,
not on a pol
itical or h
istorical inv
estigation.”　　
“It is
a film from a
n extende
d series. It
is hard t
o say who
is the
main characte
r of “The Sov
iet