Sakharov is a 1984 American drama film directed by Jack Gold and written by David W. Rintels.
The film stars Jason Robards, Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay, Michael Bryant and Paul Freeman.
[1][2][3] The film is the story of the later life of the Russian nuclear scientist Andrei Sakharov, played by Jason Robards.
In 1966, Sakharov signs the “Letter of Twenty-Five” to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, opposing the rehabilitation of Stalin, and this event divides his life into before and after phases.
After Sakharov founds the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR, he is forced into internal exile, but is allowed by Mikhail Gorbachev to return to Moscow.