Nikita - sodan tekijät

Nikita - The Elements of War tells us the story of Nikita Chroetsjev: the farmer who became the leader of a superpower during the Cold War and who brought the world on the verge of disaster with the Cuban Missile Crisis. The documentary is based on film material that has not been released until recently and on an original story by Chroetsjev's son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei. American and, now that they are free to speak out, Russian contemporaries bring back memories of Chroetsjev and his time. They throw light upon this controversial character, who was banned from collective memory after he resigned in 1964. No documentary has ever been so precise and convincing in pointing out what happened behind the scenes. Nikita Chroetsjev, the man who built the Berlin Wall, was a real communist who genuinely believed that John F. Kennedy's children would experience that what he regarded as a superior system would conquer the world. Nikita - the elements of war deals, from a Soviet point of view, with one of the most romantic and splendid periods in the communist world revolution. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)