In this revealing portrait, distinguished author and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles, from Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to the Asian city of Vladivostok, in an attempt to get beneath the skin of modern Russia. In this landmark five-part series, he explores the extraordinary changes that are taking place in Russia today and reveals the contours left by history on this vast land. From the Arctic Circle, where the summer sun never sets, to the breathtaking cities of Vladivostok and St Petersburg, from white witches to hirsute masseurs, from oil wells to shamans, Dimbleby's journey is heart-warming, entertaining and compelling. Travelling by road, rail and boat, his epic journey takes him from the splendour of St Petersburg to remote parts of Siberia, during which he meets both shamans and oil moguls and reveals the most interesting details about Russia and its culture. Jonathan was the only British television journalist to interview President Gorbachev during the Cold War, and, returning to Russia for the first time since those days, he discovers a land transformed. For Jonathan, crossing the immense Russian landmass became as much an interior journey as an exterior one. In television's first comprehensive journey through the vast and varied landscapes of Russia, Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey from one end to the other, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable. Look through one window and you see an authoritarian regime trying to modernise itself into an oil-rich economy. Look through another and you see exuberant people enjoying new opportunities, struggling with old problems. Everywhere, the marker stones of their turbulent past. Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, he seeks out the people of this strange and extraordinary land. A Mentorn Media Production for BBC
在这幅揭露真相的肖像中,杰出作家兼广播员乔纳森·丁布尔比跨越八个时区,行程 10,000 英里,从北极圈的摩尔曼斯克到亚洲城市符拉迪沃斯托克,试图深入了解现代俄罗斯的面貌。在这个具有里程碑意义的五部分系列中,他探索了当今俄罗斯正在发生的非凡变化,并揭示了历史在这片广阔土地上留下的轮廓。从夏日太阳永不落下的北极圈,到令人惊叹的海参崴和圣彼得堡,从白女巫到多毛的按摩师,从油井到萨满,丁布尔比的旅程温暖人心、有趣且引人入胜。通过公路、铁路和船只,他史诗般的旅程将他从辉煌的圣彼得堡带到了西伯利亚的偏远地区,在此期间,他遇到了萨满和石油大亨,并揭示了有关俄罗斯及其文化的最有趣的细节。乔纳森是冷战期间唯一一位采访戈尔巴乔夫总统的英国电视记者,自那时以来他第一次回到俄罗斯,发现这片土地发生了变化。对于乔纳森来说,穿越广阔的俄罗斯大陆既是一次内部旅行,也是一次外部旅行。在电视上第一次全面穿越俄罗斯广阔而多样的风景中,乔纳森·丁布尔比(Jonathan Dimbleby)进行了一次从一端到另一端的史诗般的旅程,消除了陈词滥调,陶醉在不可预测的事物中。透过一扇窗户,你会看到一个独裁政权试图将自己现代化为石油资源丰富的经济体。透过另一个例子,你会看到充满活力的人们享受着新的机遇,同时也在与旧的问题作斗争。到处都是他们动荡过去的标记石。 他跨越七个时区,经历各种极端天气,寻找这片陌生而非凡的土地上的人们。 Mentorn Media 为 BBC 制作的作品