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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is today considered as one of the major books of the 20th century. But it also represented an amazing human adventure, which is the subject of this documentary. Indeed, how did the manuscript, written in great secrecy at a time when the borders of the USSR were sealed tight and the KGB all powerful, manage to reach us? In his final filmed interview late in 2007, Solzhenitsyn delivers an exclusive testimony on the saga of his work. We also hear those whom the great Russian writer called "the unseen": his closest friends, who, as part of an underground network, for years risked their freedom, and sometimes their lives, so that The Gulag Archipelago could finally be published. The manuscript, secretly carried from city to city, photographed, microfilmed, finally reached the West and changed the course of History.

France - 2008 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital • 4/3 • PAL - Colour

Director Jean Crépu Writer Nicolas Miletitch, Jean Crépu Camera Peter Bolton Editing Claire Collin

Production P. Prod, 38, rue de Berri, 75008 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5395 4050 Fax : +33 (0)1 5395 4060 E-mail : d.maudinet@presse-planete.fr Co-producer Comité Français de Radio-Télévision, 45 bis rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4408 8878 Fax : +33 (0)1 4408 8879

Sales Roch Bozino Java Films, Roch Bozino, 4-6 villa Thoréton, 75015 Paris, France Tél : +33 1 4060 2624 Fax : +33 1 4060 2649 E-mail : r.bozino@javafilms.fr