Frontline

Season 4, Episode 23

Episode Title: Comrades IV: The Trial of Tamara Russo

Air Date: 1986-07-22

Overview:

Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old hospital orderly on trial for theft in Soviet Moldavia, and Lyubov Bubulic, the female judge presiding over Russo's case.