by STEPHEN DAVIS
A film about Andrei Sakharov It is 1957. Inside the secret heart of the Soviet Nuclear
Weapons Research Programme, a 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 disgrace and vilification at the hands of the State. The film ends in 1976 with Sakharov the moral leader of the new class of Soviet intelligentsia - the dissidents. Four years later he was to be banished to exile in Gorky where, subjected to increasing pressure from the authorities, he has remained to this day. A fine tribute (THE GUARDIAN)
A film of ideas and polemic (THE TIMES)
Film editor JIM LATHAN
Producer MICK JACKSON