SOLZHENITSYN AT HARVARD (TV)
Summary
A special program on the occasion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's speech at the Harvard College commencement. The program opens with a personal and literary biography as Christopher Lydon reviews the Soviet author's imprisonment for writing a letter critical of Joseph Stalin. Also noted are the cancer that the author contracted in a labor camp, publication of "...Ivan Denisovich," which was attacked by the Khrushchev regime, exile from his beloved Russia, and the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature. Included are clips of interviews with Solzhenitsyn, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and Hedrick Smith of The New York Times. Continues with excerpts (with simultaneous English translation) from Solzhenitsyn's Harvard speech and analysis by Lydon and Harrison Salisbury. Text available.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: June 8, 1978 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0498
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Colleges and universities; Literary criticism and analysis; Liberty of the press; Nobel Prizes - 1970; U S S R - Intellectual life
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV, 1978
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Ed Baumeister … Executive Producer
- Russ Fortier … Director
- Charles Bennett … Associate Producer
- Christopher Lydon … Analysis by
- Harrison E. Salisbury … Analysis by
- Russell Fortier
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Hedrick Smith
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Joseph Stalin