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Paris, January 1949. Soviet defector Victor Kravchenko's libel suit against the French communist weekly, Les Lettres françaises, became the “trial of the century". In a courtroom packed with journalists, Kravchenko called on witnesses who spoke for the first time about the famine in Ukraine, the purges, and, 15 years before Solzhenitsyn, the hell of the Soviet gulag. Opposite him, the Moscow-supported paper brought in witnesses and intellectuals, who in battle order, fiercely denied the evidence. For three months, as the world looked on, the courtroom was a theater of cold war: the gulag vs. the radiant future of the proletariat, human experiences vs. official speeches, facts vs. ideology. What insidious mechanisms force one to remain blind to the truth?

France - 2008 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 • PAL - Colour

Director Bernard George Writer Bernard George, Emmanuel Blanchard based on Nina Berberova Camera Jean-Louis Laforêt Sound Florent Ravalec Editing Pierre-Joseph Licidé Music Robert Baccherini

Production Cinétévé, 4, quai des Célestins, 75004 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4804 9609 Fax : +33 (0)1 4804 7038 E-mail : l.pastor@cineteve.fr Co-Production Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, ARTE France

Sales Catherine Cahen Cinétévé, Catherine Cahen, 4, quai des Célestins, 75004 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4804 9609 Fax : +33 (0)1 4804 7038 E-mail : c.cahen@cineteve.fr