With music by Shostakovich, prison-camps sequences, works of art and historic newsreel footage, the film, narrated by Tom Courtenay, dramatizes contemporary issues such as the differing scales of values in the world, the link between violence and lies, the relevance and power of art and literature, and the crucial role of the individual.In 1970 Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following year, before his expulsion from the Soviet Union, he wrote his Nobel Prize Lecture. This film illustrates this lecture. With music by Shostakovich, prison-camps sequences, works of art and historic newsreel footage, the film, narrated by Tom Courtenay, dramatizes contemporary issues such as the differing scales of values in the world, the link between violence and lies, the relevance and power of art and literature, and the crucial role of the individual.
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