A poet wrote his own death sentence — and kept writing anyway.
A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.
Writing
Nadezhda Mandelstam's testimony, recorded for history.
Sound
Poems read in Russian — meaning transcends translation.
Director
Frank Diamand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoirs 'Hope Against Hope' became the definitive account of Stalin's literary persecution; this footage captures her before global fame.
The title comes from Mandelstam's 1931 poem: 'The centuries will surround me with fire' — he died in a transit camp in 1938.
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