Summary

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a classic of Russian literature, a dissident and a Nobel Prize winner, talks, remembers, reflects. The war, the Stalinist camps, the success of "One Day of Ivan Denisovich". Opal, samizdat, the Nobel Prize, awarded four years after the award. Expulsion from the USSR. Return to the new Russia. The literary patriarch talks about the past, present and future of the country and what it means to be a writer in Russia.