Counterclaim. Observation (1989)

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".

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.

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.

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".

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.