Documentary
The story of Kawagoe Shiro, a soldier. He was taken prisoner by the Soviet Army in WW2 and only returns to his home country after 30 years, but finds himself a visitor in a place and amongst people, he barely recognises.
Geisha girls. Young girls, who become geishas. The school, the training. Secrets of experience.
He is thought to be a Russian who grew up in America but he was born in France. Leonid Parfenov takes a journey through Vladimir Pozner’s life. Visiting the places and turning the pages of his history.
In October 1993 Russian society was divided, some came to defend the Parliament building, the White House, others came to attack it.
For sixteen years, from 1966 to 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ruled over the USSR. For sixteen years he served as General Secretary of the Soviet Union Communist party, successfully progressing through every stage of a clearly defined idealogical career ladder.
They introduced Russia's first-ever woman in government. They started a newspaper and called it “Pravda” (Truth).
He died with his eyes open. His lifeless, almost naked body, covered only in rags, lay on a hospital laundry table.
In 1945, shortly before the fall of fascist led Germany, the director of the Koenigsberg Museum, Alfred Rode handed a piece of paper over to the German Office for Cultural Affairs.
If ever the governing Soviet elite fell ill, their condition was always shrouded in secrecy. Nearly all were in seriously poor health in the last years of life.