Spinning Boris

Spinning Boris
DVD cover
Directed by	Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by	Cydney Bernard
Written by	Yuri Zeltser Grace Cary Bickley
Starring	Jeff Goldblum Anthony LaPaglia Liev Schreiber
Music by	Jeff Danna
Cinematography	John S. Bartley
Edited by	Michael Pacek
Release date	October 23, 2003
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Spinning Boris is a 2003 American comedy film starring Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. In the film, a Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with Boris Yeltsin's reelection campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.

The film is based on the true story of three American political consultants who ran the successful reelection campaign of Boris Yeltsin in 1996, although some question the degree of involvement of the Americans in Yeltsin's reelection. The 1996 elections were marred by rampant vote fraud and in 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev explicitly said that "There is hardly any doubt who won [that race]. It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin."

Cast

• Jeff Goldblum – George Gorton
• Anthony LaPaglia – Dick Dresner
• Liev Schreiber – Joe Shumate
• Boris Krutonog – Felix Braynin
• Svetlana Efremova – Tatyana Dyachenko
• Shauna MacDonald – Lisa
• Gregory Hlady – Andrei Lugov
• Vladimir Radian – Vasso
• Ilia Volok – Elvis Impersonator
• Konstantin Kazakov – Oleg Soskovets
• Judah Katz – Michael Kramer

See also

• Electoral fraud

External links

• Spinning Boris at the Internet Movie Database
• Spinning Boris at Rotten Tomatoes
• Article about film (Russian)
• Time Magazine article (July 15, 1996) detailing the events in the movie