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Electing a Russian president the American way.
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Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeff Goldblum | ... | George Gorton |
 | Anthony LaPaglia | ... | Dick Dresner |
 | Liev Schreiber | ... | Joe Shumate |
 | Boris Lee Krutonog | ... | Felix Braynin (as Boris Krutonog) |
 | Svetlana Efremova | ... | Tatiana Dyachenko |
 | Shauna MacDonald | ... | Lisa |
 | Gregory Hlady | ... | Andrei Lugov |
 | Vladimir Radian | ... | Vasso |
| Ilia Volok | ... | Elvis Impersonator |
| Konstantin Kazakov | ... | Oleg Soskovets |
 | Judah Katz | ... | Michael Kramer |
| Maria Syrgiannis | ... | Female Journalist |
| Ola Sturik | ... | Post Office Clerk |
 | Gillian Vanderburgh | ... | Dick Dresner's Wife |
| Serge Timokhin | ... | Hotel Desk Clerk |
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The Yeltsin Project (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for language.
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USA:112 min
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The film is based on actual events. While the film portrays all three consultants as being in Russia during the entire campaign, Gorton, Dresner and Shumate flew in and out of Russia during the five month period from February through July, 1996. Usually, two of the three were in Russia while the other was in the USA. This was a safety precaution, so if something went wrong in Russia, the member of the team in the US could get the other two out.
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Joe Shumate:
As long as we keep showing good numbers, the Party of War has no choice but to stay behind us.
Dick Dresner: That's where they have to be, to do what they're gonna do to us.
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Dick Dresner: That's where they have to be, to do what they're gonna do to us.
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This is a nice political comedy. Three American election-consultants are hired to help Boris Jeltsin to win Russia's first free election. Jeltsin's daughter is the campaign leader and speaks for her father. Though the three consultants never meet Jeltsin in person, this gap is nicely filled with archive material of the real election campaign in 1996. The movie begins with the statement 'based on a truth story'. I strongly doubt this story is authentic, but it is plausible though.
Jeff Goldblum is the real star in this movie and some non-hollywood details, like the fact that some Russians don't speak English (so there is a lot of Russian language in the movie), are very nice and make this movie an above-average one. Watch it if you like satire and are not afraid of politics!