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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Yuri Zeltser (written by) &
Grace Cary Bickley (written by)
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Electing a Russian president the American way.
Plot:
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
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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The Yeltsin Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language.
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USA:112 min
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Not portrayed in the film is Steven Moore who, at 27 years old, was the junior member of the team who stayed in Moscow during the entire campaign. Much of the script was drafted using the daily memos that Moore wrote to keep the traveling senior consultants informed of developments on the campaign. more
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Joe Shumate: I know what you're thinking.
George Gorton: Do you? Then you're about to go f**k yourself.
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Strange truth as fiction, 16 October 2004
Author: Melissa Smith (mtsmith.02@ysu.edu) from Youngstown, OH

I was watching the election returns in my friends' apartment in St. Petersburg on June 16, 1996, and thus had seen the documentary footage in this film first-hand. Watching "Spinning Boris" on DVD, I did not suspect that it was based on reality rather than conjecture until I watched the interviews with the political consultants on whom it is based. It is a tribute to the writers that the film came off as incredible fiction. Very enjoyable. The dialogue is very clever among the Americans (in the good old "buddy movie" tradition) , and I was impressed at the texture of the Russian setting, all the while not believing the story line. (I recall less dire numbers in the polls, although my Russian friends were very worried about a possible return to Communism).

Apparently, though, I found more humor in the film's situations than I really should have, considering it was based on fact. I regret that this film did not get broader press coverage, for it is as relevant to the current situation in American politics as to the Russian events it portrays.

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