The lost documentary about cinema's most stubborn refusenik — buried for 30+ years.
This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche program devoted to Soviet cinema. The documentary was produced in-house at La Sept and based on an exclusive interview with Alexei Guerman in May of that year. It has not been seen since.
Direction
Guy Gilles captures a ghost before he vanishes
Production
La Sept archive footage: time capsule of Soviet collapse
Acting
Guerman himself — unfiltered, exhausted, magnificent
Director
Guy Gilles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
La Sept was France's cutting-edge arts channel; this 1990 broadcast captured Guerman at the exact moment Soviet censorship collapsed, yet he remained skeptical of freedom itself.
Guy Gilles died in 1996; La Sept dissolved in 2000. The documentary survives only through private recordings — the master tapes are presumed lost.
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