Film
Counterclaim.
Observation. (1989)
Annotation
In the center of the picture - Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich and the events in Minsk in 1989Persons of arts | Biography | Culture and Arts | Literature | History
Reel №1
A crowd of people, a column of policemen is passing among them.
The feet of the policemen.
A recording cassette is taken out of the VCR.
A new cassette has been put on, Ales Adamovich is on the screen.
Press conference of Ales Adamovich.
Columns of people with posters.
People enter the forest.
Bones of dead people.
A skull with a wound in the temple.
Posters of demonstrators.
An official rally condemning Stalin's repressions.
Interview on the square where the official rally took place.
Svetlana Alexievich.
Alternating photos of Ales Adamovich as he grows up.
Chronicle of the 1960s:
Moscow State University.
Students and teachers of the university.
A meeting at the university.
Photos by Andrey Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.
The trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.
Narrated by Larisa Bogoraz, the wife of Julius Daniel.
Photo of Sinyavsky and Daniel.
Meeting with readers of Ales Adamovich.
Alternating photos of Ales Adamovich.
The military awards Olesya Adamovich.
Ales Adamovich and Elem Klimov.
A shot from the movie "Go and see".
Key words
repression. dissidents.Personnel
Alesj Adamovich, pisatelj.Andrej Sinyavskij,dissident.
Yulij Danielj, dissident.
Aleksievich Svetlana
Calendar
1960-1969Locations
Moscow
Minsk
Society, social activities and community organizations; Literature Social life; Culture and Arts
Reel №2
Stills from Elem Klimov's film "Go and See".
Says Ivan Ivanovich Antanovich, the censor of the film.
Tells Elem Klimov.
Says Ales Adamovich.
Ales Adamovich speaks at a meeting dedicated to Chernobyl.
A woman tells about the contamination of children with radioactive substances in the mother's womb.
Says Ales Adamovich.
Photos of Ales Adamovich.
Ales Adamovich and Vasil Bykov.
Ales Adamovich walks through the streets of Moscow.
The court for the protection of the honor and dignity of a war veteran against Ales Adamovich.
Key words
fighting with officials.Personnel
Alesj Adamovich, pisatelj.Elem Klimov, rezhisser.
Vasilj Bikov, pisatelj.
Locations
Minsk
Moscow
Society, social activities and community organizations; Literature Social life; Culture and Arts
Reel №3
Speech at the trial of Ales Adamovich.
Photos of the remains of victims of Stalin's repressions.
Interview with the plaintiff in court, former prosecutor Shakhovtsov.
Photos of Ales Adamovich.
The ruins of the house.
Poet E.Yevtushenko.
Memorial Society.
A. Solzhenitsin's letter is read out.
E.A. Yevtushenko comments.
The ruins of the house are being sorted out.
Minsk Society Committee 58.
Belarusian writers.
Speech at the meeting of the Committee 58.
Key words
dissidents. Memorial Society. "Committee 58"Personnel
Alesj Adamovich, pisatelj.E.A.Evtushenko, poet.
Locations
Moscow
Minsk
Society, social activities and community organizations; Literati Social life; Persons of arts; Biography; Culture and Arts; Literature
Reel №4
Committee vote 58.
Minsk is preparing to celebrate November 7 in 1988.
The newspaper "Sovetskaya Belorussia".
Interview with a newspaper employee.
Workers decorate the city for the holiday.
Interview with plasterer M.V Vishnevskaya.
Interviews with residents of Minsk.
A cassette is placed in the VCR.
Streets of Minsk.
City plan.
The place of the unauthorized rally is marked.
Interview of the Komsomol leader.
Interview with a journalist.
Interview with the activist of the movement "Committee 58".
Key words
anti-Stalinist movements. dispersal of the demonstration.Locations
Minsk
Society, social activities and community organizations; Demonstrations Social life
Reel №5
Interviews of participants of an unauthorized rally.
Crowds of people among them is a column of policemen.
Streets of Minsk.
Interviews of journalists.
Meeting in the Writers' Union.
Union of Artists of Belarus.
Performance of the artistic intelligentsia with criticism of state bodies.
The videotape is inserted into the tape recorder.
On the screen: Ales Adamovich walks through the streets of Moscow.
Key words
protests. the Belarusian intelligentsia.Personnel
Alesj Adamovich, pisatelj.Locations
Minsk
Moscow
Society, social activities and community organizations Social life