The film is composed of three series of 90 minutes each:
Part One: I Don't Like
Part Two: Tale About Love
Part Three: Story of Illness
The film features Vysotsky's friends, his relatives and his family: his parents, his wife, French actress Marina Vlady, theater director Yuri Lyubimov, writer Arthur Makarov, actor Leonid Filatov, Lyudmila Abramova, mother of Vladimir Vysotsky's children, his son Nikita Vysotsky, resuscitation doctor Leonid Sulpovar.
The poet's work is discussed by St. Petersburg sociologists, poet and musician Yuri Shevchuk, former actor and now priest, Archpriest Konstantin Smirnov.
This original film almanac was created in 1998 and is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of the poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky.
The film is based on films and videos from the director's personal archive covering the period from 1978 to 1998, including concerts filmed during Vladimir Vysotsky's lifetime, interviews, scenes from the play "Hamlet", the film of Vysotsky's funeral in Moscow on July 28, 1980.
The new version includes episodes from the director's previous films: "I Don't Like" (Sverdlovsk Studio, 1988) and "Post Scriptum" (Lenfilm, 1990) as well as video copies of Vysotsky's shootings in 1974-1979 donated by colleagues from Germany, Mexico, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Italy.
