Writer and Time

A film about the VII Congress of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Moscow city. Grand Kremlin Palace. Opening of the congress on June 30, 1981. Sessions of the Congress. Closing of the congress. Delegates and guests of the congress in the conference room, podium, sidelines. Among those present: Mikhail Gorbachev, PN Demichev, Mikhail Suslov, VV Kuznetsov, BN Ponomarev, A. Ya. Pelshe and others. Performs and give interviews (synchronously and behind the scenes): G. Markov, S. Mikhalkov, F. Kuznetsov, A. Chepurov, A. A. Epishev, P. Zagrebelny, F. Abramov, A. Chakovsky, Y. Bondarev, Ch Aitmatov, E. Evtushenko, V. Rozov, R. Gamzatov, R. Rozhdestvensky, N. Gribachev, N. Dumbadze, A. Voznesensky, S. Kaputikyan, E. Mezhelaitis. Present: A. Varela (Argentina), J. Aldridge (Great Britain), G. Kant (East Germany), C. Joshi (India). Chronicle footage: I Congress of Writers (Moscow, 1934), M. Gorky speaks; Soviet writers during the Second World War, including: M. Sholokhov, P. Pavlenko, I. Ehrenburg, V. Stavsky, A. Tvardovsky, A. Fadeev. Rewarding writers for the best books on a military-patriotic theme. Among them: S. Baruzdin, K. Vanshenkin.

B&W

2

1981