Scope and Contents "This documentary portrait explores the passionate spirit of Joseph Brodsky who defied all barriers to become one of the most interesting contemporary Russian poets of the 20th century. Interviews with scholars and friends of Brodsky trace his experience as the last Russian writer arrested by the KGB. He underwent a Kafkaesque trial and was exiled to Siberia. In 1972 he was exiled from his homeland and in 1987 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Recordings of Brodsky reading his poems are...