Joseph Brodsky

In this profile the dynamic and provocative Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and a United States citizen until his death in 1996, talks at length about his poetry and recollects growing up in Russia. His account of his creative life there is illustrated with documentary and archive footage, and friends and colleagues from both his native and adopted homelands contribute. Brodsky's poems are read by Igor Panich.