Yeltsin: Three Days in August

Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Aleksandr Mokhov

Status Released

Release Date 2011-09-16

Storyline

The movie is based on real events. 1991 Boris Yeltsin, while at his dacha, learns that Gorbachev is blockaded in Foros ... According to the Soviet leadership, the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR (GKChP of the USSR) is being formed, and Yanaev is declared acting. President of the USSR. Many advise to flee the country, but Yeltsin makes a decision - he goes to Moscow to the White House to lead the opposition...