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How does the "brains" of the Soviet regime, an academic, the "father" of the hydrogen bomb, an outstanding intellectual for whom, even in the Kremlin, all the doors were open, become an irreconcilable champion of human rights and of prisoners of conscience and an internationally renowned enemy of this system ?
This film answers this question in an intriguing, yet subdued and even intimate way –by challenging the views of the witnesses of those times and Sakharov's colleagues. His widow, Yelena Bonner, and the last secretary general of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, are the two brightest participants of this indirect debate, not only by presenting facts and their interpretations, but also by using unique KGB materials. The forceful poeticism of the documentary footage makes one think about the games of power and guarantees of human freedom that is a topical theme not only in Russia.

Latvia / France - 2006 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Inara Kolmane Script Inara Kolmane Camera Aivars Kalnins, Janis Juhnevics Sound Olivier Lafuma Editing Katya Chelli Music Alexeï Aïgui

Production Film Studio Devini, Ludzas 24 a/k 69, 1003 Riga, Lettonie Tél : +371 724 1688 Fax : +371 724 1434 E-mail : devini@parks.lv Co-Production Odysseus Productions

Sales Film Studio Devini, Ludzas 24 a/k 69, 1003 Riga, Lettonie Tél : +371 724 1688 Fax : +371 724 1434 E-mail : devini@parks.lv