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m an (\extended +)ser/ies
@$. It is+[ ha@?rd to say who is the main cha =[racter of “The So/viet Elegy` .” There are more[._ than a hundred )(f aces of our compatriots. B(ut, of c=ourse, it i /s :not] by ch=a`(nce t_.hat it is the destiny ;of a `famous]- politi(=cal f*ig=-\%ure,%-` Bo ris Nikolayevitc@
;h/ Ye?+l?^tsin, ]`that ,[^bears? a %spe(cia^l accent in the film. Though he g@/ot to power followin`])g qui) te ^ty_pica/l ways,)% his u =nc`+o?m^mon
_ cha` racter puts h$/im?`_
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ut of the ordinary, and in the au_:( thor$!’s opinion  ,it may be d*et.ermined by his u ncommon human %/n!at
ure. Our hero ] exi !sts _within the tr(
agi\c]* pattern o,f] the soviet s*?ocialist life. %He i=$.s a ch,_)aract!e.r of a drama-, $of which he is one of# = the aut[]:h,ors. “Th e @?( Soviet E
legy” ca^%n hardly be[ called# a documentary film in the pr`op[er sense.` Of course, `the autho:r g:)\uarantees th
- e accur acy of chronolog.y, but :,he insis,%;ts#] ;on an artistic mode of ) \t h+in`king, n]ot on a,= . polit=ical or historical investigation.”