Telecast Sight (1991 №3692) 22.08.1991.
Reel 1
0:27:45Sight №3692 22.08.1991 (1991)
Reel №1
The special edition "
Coup"
presents an hour-by-hour chronicle of the coup d'etat in Russia in August 1991. It shows the general situation in Moscow, troops on the streets of the city, the construction of barricades, popular unrest, interviews with representatives of the armed forces and participants in the rallies, the work of the radio station of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. It provides a description and criticism of the actions of the State Emergency Committee, general reports of parallel events in Leningrad and the Baltic region.
The program also includes fragments of a press conference with members of the State Emergency Committee, interviews with famous politicians and prominent public figures.
Persons:
Listyev V.N. - TV presenter, journalist, first general director of ORT, entrepreneur.
Lyubimov A.M. - TV journalist, producer, TV presenter, vice-president of the Russian Television Academy.
Politkovsky A.V. - journalist, political observer, TV presenter, producer.
Mikhalkov N.S. - actor, director, screenwriter, producer, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
Rostropovich M.L. - cellist, pianist, conductor, teacher, public figure, People's Artist of the USSR.
Bonner E.G. -- public figure, human rights activist, dissident, publicist, wife of academician A.D. Sakharov.
Gorbachev M.S. - statesman, political and public figure, the last General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the first Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the only President of the USSR.
Gdlyan T.Kh. - statesman and political figure.
Yanayev G.I. - Soviet party and government figure, vice-president of the USSR (1990-1991), leader of the State Emergency Committee.
Pugo B.K. - party and government figure, 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1990-1991), member of the State Emergency Committee (1991).
Kalinin N.V. - Soviet military leader, colonel general, commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District (1989-1991).
Zhirinovsky V.V. - Doctor of Philosophy, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, public and political figure.
Silaev I.S. - statesman, diplomat, Hero of Socialist Labor.
Calendar:
08.1991
Shooting locations:
Moscow, Leningrad