Brodsky Is Not a Poet

Fellow poets excited ladies the love of his life Marina Basmanova two psychiatric hospitals KGB interrogations a Peoples Court prison exile forced emigration All of this was Brodskys Leningrad The biography which was written for in Akhmatovas words our redhead On the fourth of June 1972 when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport this biography ended And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of Russia America Italy Sweden Finland the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero perhaps the most welltraveled of all Russian writers The places that became his biography And the people that defined his fate