“It is a film from an extended series. It is hard to say who is the main character of “The Soviet Elegy.” There are more than a hundred faces of our compatriots. But, of course, it is not by chance that it is the destiny of a famous political figure, Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, that bears a special accent in the film. Though he got to power following quite typical ways, his uncommon character puts him out of the ordinary, and in the author’s opinion it may be determined by his uncommon human nature. Our hero exists within the tragic pattern of the soviet socialist life. He is a character of a drama, of which he is one of the authors. “The Soviet Elegy” can hardly be called a documentary film in the proper sense. Of course, the author guarantees the accuracy of chronology, but he insists on an artistic mode of thinking, not on a political or historical investigation.
“这是一部扩展系列的电影。《苏维埃挽歌》的主角很难说。我们的同胞有一百多张面孔。但是，当然，著名政治人物鲍里斯·尼古拉耶维奇·叶利钦的命运在电影中带有特殊的口音并非偶然。尽管他以相当典型的方式掌权，但他不寻常的性格使他与众不同，在作者看来，这可能是由他不寻常的人性决定的。我们的英雄存在于苏维埃社会主义生活的悲惨模式中。他是戏剧的角色，他是戏剧的作者之一。《苏联挽歌》很难说是真正意义上的纪录片。当然，作者保证了年表的准确性，但他坚持一种艺术的思维模式，而不是政治或历史调查。
其中有很多杂音，还有一些就是人物好像没有台词，说话也没有声音。整的可能就是那个时代还没有特别高科技。我值得一提的就是一些人物的出现，比如列宁什么之类的，除非是有那种情怀的，可能看得很有意义。苏维埃政权还有相关的大人物，都是以图片来滑动的。