State Emergency Committee, the investigation is over (1993)

The road along the fence, a panorama of the concrete fence with barbed wire.

The building where the members of the State Emergency Committee gathered.

View of the Matrosskaya Tishina prison.

Interview of the Prosecutor General V. Stepankov (synchronously) about the investigation of the criminal case of the participants of the State Emergency Committee.

Volumes of the criminal case on the table and on the bookshelves.

Boxes with video cassettes.

Walking along the corridor.

Fingers are typing on the computer keyboard.

The printing device is working.

Interview of the head of the investigative department Gorelov V.A. (synchronously and off-camera) about the defendants.

View of the prison window bars.

A wall with windows in bars.

Prison corridors, doors, bars, shower, washbasin.

A panorama of the empty room where the prisoners take walks.

Interview of Stepankov (synchronously and off-camera) about the myths surrounding the investigation.

Prison windows.

Gorelov's interview (simultaneously and off-camera) about the conditions of detention of suspects in the GKChP case.

Food in aluminum bowls.

Distribution of food to prisoners.

Interior view of an empty prison cell with two-tiered bunks.

A calendar with a reproduction of a painting of the crucified Christ hangs on the wall.

Newspapers are lying on the table in the cell.

Close-up: an ashtray with a cigarette.

Corner of the cell: a toilet and a washbasin.

A panorama of the cell.

Close-up: Belomorkanal cigarettes.

A newspaper on the table with a portrait of M.M. Gorbachev, books.

Stepankov's interview (simultaneously and off-camera) about the complexity of the investigation of the GKChP case.

View of the prison from above.

An article in the newspaper "Economy: What We Fought for...".

A photograph in the newspaper: Lukyanov and Gorbachev talking, an attack on the headline of the article "Interview from Behind Bars".

Valentin Stepankov talks (synchronously and off-screen) about the complexity of the investigation of the GKChP case.

Telephone.

An interview with the head of the investigative group Alexander Frolov (synchronously and off-screen) about the history of the creation of the GKChP. A street in Moscow, public transport.

A panorama of the KGB building on Bolshaya Lubyanka Street from the street.

Photographs from the criminal case: places where the participants in the conspiracy gathered.

A view of the KGB building on Lubyanka Square.

An interview with the investigator for especially important cases under the Prosecutor General Valery Kostylev (synchronously and off-screen) about the defendants.

An article in the newspaper "Who needs these speculations and lies?" Video recording of Anatoly Lukyanov's speech at the microphone (synchronously) on the Union Treaty from August 14, 1991. Headline of the article in the newspaper "Pravda" from August 20, 1991: "Statement of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR".

In the newspaper: the article "I condemn the desire for autocracy" and a photograph of A. Lukyanov.

Newspaper article "We had no other choice...".

General view across the street to the building of the Ministry of Defense in southwest Moscow.

The building of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation with the Russian flag.

Old Square in Moscow, the former building of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Interview with Alexander Frolov (synchronously and off-screen).

Photograph of the member of the State Emergency Committee Valentin Pavlov in the newspaper.

Valentin Stepankov talks (synchronously and off-screen) about the book "The Kremlin Conspiracy".

The book is on the table.

View from the window of a prison cell.

Monitor, printer.

Monitor and printer.

Interview with Alexander Frolov (synchronously and off-screen) about the need to resolve the issue with the members of the State Emergency Committee within the framework of the rule of law.

Moscow streets, transport, pedestrians.

Valentin Stepankov talks (synchronously) about his communication with suspects.

Valery Kostylev gives his assessment (synchronously) of the human qualities of the defendants.

Prison wall, barred windows.

Prison corridor, cell through the door window, panorama of the cell.

Walking along the corridor.

Walking along the prison roof.

Barbed wire.

Driving through Moscow, streets, car tunnel.

Poster "USSR - a stronghold of peace" on Leninsky Prospekt.

KGB building on Lubyanka, panorama of the center of the square, empty pedestal of the Dzerzhinsky monument.