Soviet Elegy
1989 · 35 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 158 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Sokurov
Overview
In ""The Soviet Elegy"" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of the Communist Party deities, and participated in the earthly life through connections of different kinds.
Dialogue Timeline — 10 lines
00:01:51 You're watching the documentary film Soviet Elegy
00:08:59 It happened in the village of Budka in the Sverdlovsk region.
00:09:15 It was a typical country wedding.
00:09:22 The pastoral life of Ural didn't impress them.
00:09:27 In his early thirties, the famine forced Nikolaj to leave the village.
00:09:33 Moving with the family to Bereznik in the Perm, Nikolaj started to work in the yards of the potassium industry.
00:09:52 He met his future wife. They had a typical student wedding. She studied in the same faculty.
00:10:23 This photo shows his daughter-in-law, Naina Iosifovna, her two grand-daughters
00:10:34 his widow and his son Michail.
00:23:43 Building 358
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed10
Dialogue density0.3 lines / min
First line00:01:51
Final line00:23:43
Production Record
DirectorAleksandr Sokurov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes158