How it was 03.07.1999 (1999)

Excerpt from the d / movie "Fee for betrayal".

A guest in the studio, film director Yuri Reshetnikov, talks about the plans for filming all of A. Galich's songs in 1972, about the KGB surveillance of Galich, about Galich's creation of the song "The Executioners do not Sleep well at night", recalls Galich's reading of the poem "The Poem about Stalin", about the films made according to Galich's scripts, about Galich's work on the scripts of local film studios after being expelled from the Union of Writers and the Union of Cinematographers.

Writer and poet Galina Shergova speaks about the circumstances and reasons for the beginning of the persecution of Galich by the authorities (synchronously).

Literary critic Stanislav Rassadin in the studio talks about the reasons for the persecution of Galich, tells the story of Galich's creation of the first song, talks about Galich's poetic gift, about the sharpness of Galich's lyrics, about the attitude of the audience to Galich's work, about the circumstances of Galich's exclusion from the Union of Writers and the Union of Cinematographers, about Galich's early plays and screenplays, about Galich's betrayal by his friends from the Union of Cinematographers.

Photos of Galich, texts of documents on the exclusion of Galich from the Union of Writers, a fragment of the "Hussar Song" of Galich sounds behind the scenes (synchronously).

Newsreel of 1968: A. A. Galich performs at a concert in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, performs a song in memory of Boris Pasternak.

G. Shergova recalls the pressure on Galich from the party bodies and the leadership of the Union of Writers (synchronously).

Actor Alexey Batalov recalls the performance of Galich in front of vacationers in the Rest House of Cinematographers, (synchronously).

Video news: external and internal views of the former dacha of Stalin in Kuntsevo, the interiors of Stalin's office, behind the scenes sounds an excerpt of the poem by Galich "Poem about Stalin" (synchronously).

The writer and human rights activist Felix Svetov in the studio recalls the circumstances that preceded the exclusion of Galich from the Union of Writers and his expulsion from the USSR, the vote in the Union of Writers on the exclusion of Galich, the charges brought against Galich for ties with the West, the songs Galich wrote before leaving the USSR, one of the last meetings with Galich, the reasons for Galich's conversion to the Orthodox faith, his meeting with Alexander Men.

Writer Vladimir Voinovich speaks about the speeches at the meeting of the secretariat of the Union of Writers, directed against Galich (synchronously).

Newsreel: the faces of the audience, Galich performs the song "Gypsy Romance" (synchronously).

The texts of newspaper publications directed against Galich.

Writer Olga Kuchkina speaks about the harassment of Galich during his exclusion from the Union of Cinematographers (synchronously).

A fragment of the d / movie "Fee for betrayal".

V. Voinovich talks about the death of Galich (synchronously).

A handwritten text of Galich's poems, a portrait of Galich, a fragment of a song performed by him sounds behind the scenes.