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The Lift by ALLAN BERRIE with and This political tragedy is set in a poets' and writers' apartment block in Moscow for what the author calls The Beautiful Dream (1924-27) and The Terrible Reality
(1928-35). It focuses on the literary aspirations and disillusion of Boris Brodski. The lift takes on sinister overtones as it carries State Police to arrest the latest dissident writer.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Allan Berrie
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Boris Brodski:
David Buck
Varia Makovsky:
Morag Hood
Ekaterina Denlsov:
Sonia Fraser
Ivan Leshenkov:
Martyn Read
Galina Leshenkov:
Elizabeth Ryder
Dmitri Surov:
David Timson
Tatka Surov:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Kornei Zhukovski:
Michael Spice
Sannikov:
Peter Pacey
Christian Popov:
Steve Hodson
Valentin Morozov:
Anthony Hyde
Vladimir Mayakovsky/Leopold Averbakh:
Sean Barrett
Cherkassov:
Nick Brimble
Voronsky:
John Boit
Maxim Gorki:
Gordon Reid
Lyuba:
Amanda Murray
Nikolai Bukharin:
John Liveset
Source: Radio Times

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