Feeling Productions + 6 more, Images des Anges, Swan productions, YNIL Film Productions, Centre National de la Cinématographie, TF1 Films Production, La Sept Cinéma
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).