My Husband Andrei Sakharov

How does one of the "brains" of the Soviet regime, an academician, the "father" of hydrogen bomb, an outstanding intellectual for whom even in the Kremlin all the doors were open can become an irreconcilable champion of human rights and prisoners of conscience and an internationally renown enemy of this system? The film "My Husband Andrei Sakharov" answers this question in an intriguing yet subdued, even intimate form - by confronting the views of the witnesses of those times and Sakharov's colleagues. His widow Yelena Bonner and the last secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev are two brightest participants of this indirect debate in the film, which not only by presenting facts and their interpretations but also by using unique KGB materials and forceful poeticism of the documentary footage makes one think about the games of power and guarantees of human freedom that is a topical theme not only in Russia.