Boris Pasternak

The film is about the life and work of Boris Pasternak in inseparable connection with the fate of his outstanding contemporaries — M. Tsvetaeva, V. Meyerhold, O. Mandelstam, B. Pilnik, T. Tabidze and others. Boris Pasternak is talked about and remembered by A. Sinyavsky, E. Yevtushenko, A. Voznesensky, J. Pasternak.

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.