罗曼·卡尔曼，The life of Roman Karmen, as presented by Soviet historians, is ideal epic material. Few men can claim to have filmed Stalin and Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Giap, Nehru and Allende, Castro and Guevara from close to. He lived through revolution in China, the Spanish Civil War, the horrors of Nazism and the defeat of the German army, the Siege of Leningrad and Von Paulus' surrender at Stalingrad, the planting of the red flag on the roof of the Reichstag and the Nuremberg Trials, victory in Vietnam and the Cuban fiesta.