by STEPHEN DAVIS
A film about Andrei Sakharov
Inside the secret heart of the Soviet Nuclear Weapons Research Programme a most brilliant and successful young scientist begins to have doubts about the safety of atmospheric testing. So starts the dangerous and remarkable journey of Andrei Sakharov from the pinnacle of Russian society, through growing conflict with a menacing and inflexible bureaucracy. to the moral leadership of a new class of Soviet intelligentsia - the dissidents. It is the story of a personality as strong and forceful as that of Khrushchev, with whom he clashes, and of a vivid and inventive imagination taken over by nightmarish apprehensions for the future of mankind-now armed with his own invention, the hydrogen fusion bomb.
Photography DAVID FEIG Visual effects designer COLIN MAPSON
Film editor JIM LATHAM
Designer HUMPHREY JAEGER Producer MICK JACKSON