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(Sovetskaya elegiya). A devastating, almost cruel portrait of Boris Yeltsin, in which the leader is removed from the public arena of speeches and propaganda, and placed in what seems to be a quintessential Sokurov space: one of silence, stillness, inaction. The result is an ambiguous vision of immobility verging on paralysis and death. Confrontational as ever and bearing the early marks of political disgrace, Yeltsin would soon become president of Russia.