How it was 12/26/2000 (2000)

KGB against Dovlatov, 1978 year.

Sergei Dovlatov is the author of stories and novels known in Russia and America, including such as "Compromise", "Zone", "Reserve".

About his life you can say that she became, without exaggeration, a special literary plot, and enemies and friends - the characters of this story.

Ten years after the author's death, the heroes of his works meet in the studio and tell in detail about the years of the writer's life preceding his emigration in the USA, they recall the stories of unsuccessful publications and how their author, until the last, dreamed of realizing himself as a writer at home.

Visiting the program, literary critic Andrei Ariev, journalist Mikhail Roginsky, writer and poet Elena Skulskaya, former employee of the Pushkinsky Mountains museum-reserve Lyudmila Kravets.

Interview in the recording: Sergei Dovlatov about life in Tallinn, editor in chief of the publishing house "Esti raamat" in the 1970s Axel Tamm and the head of the military patriotic department the upbringing of the newspaper "Soviet Estonia" in the 1970s, Igor Gaspl of attempts to publish a book by SD Dovlatov.

There are documentary shootings: New York (the radio "Svoboda" about the death of Dovlatov), ​​the newsreel "The Leningrad Newsreel" (the plot about the journal "Neva"), Tallinn 1970s, excursions to Pushkinogorye.