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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech is the text for
this program, which exhorts viewers to shoulder their responsibilities as
citizens—to fight untruth, injustice, and repression wherever they arise and
before they become too powerful to overcome. Never delivered because he
was not permitted to leave the Soviet Union in time, the speech is read by
Solzhenitsyn in Russian (in the English version by actor Tom Courtenay).
Using Solzhenitsyn’s prison camp experience as a point of departure, the
film moves rapidly outward to involve all of us—those who have suffered
violence, and those who have allowed others to suffer.
"The world is overrun by the brazen conviction that force can do
everything, while justice can do nothing," says the author. With governments
and citizens subscribing to a double standard of justice—one for themselves
and one for "the others," one for the rich and one for the poor, one for the
powerful and one for the powerless—it becomes necessary for each of us to
stand up and be counted. A Russian aphorism becomes the emblem of this
message: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world." (29 minutes)
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