Plot Summary:Biography of Russian physicist \u0026 dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him to lose a senior party position, then half his salary, and finally completely being dismissed from his job and exiled to Gorky, an industrial city. When the Nobel prize is awarded, he is denied the trip to receive it. His wife was able to go there. Sakharov launched a lengthy hunger strike to protest his country's treatment of its people.
在80年代蘇聯尚在（估計是取景自蘇聯），薩哈羅夫生前（薩於89年離世）拍攝出這樣一部傳記片，還是對未來有所預見的，或者說是「未蓋棺而論」。而電影形如另一部由英語國家製作的《斯大林》一樣在細節處理上出現硬傷。演員該使用英語作為對白語言就是一大硬傷。