Final Verdict (a.k.a. The Highest Court/ The Last Judgment)

: Herz Frank, whose earlier documentary The Forbidden Zone questioned methods of rehabilitation at a Soviet penal colony, returns with a sharply critical examination of a society's response to crime in this interview with a young man on death row. "Convicted of a double murder during an impulsive robbery...Dolgove has a rather too common background among Soviet delinquents: abandoned by parents at an early age, growing up unloved and unsupervised in ugly block-tenements and adrift in black marketeering...(He) talks grudgingly to the camera, painfully. It is all terribly sad and futile...His final words, 'I love you all. Love, that's all that matters'" (Variety).

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