President of the film-makers' association at the Soviet Friendship Societies Union (SSOD) film director and the U.S.S.R. People's Artist Sergei Gerasimov (left), president of the U.S.S.R.-Great Britain Society poet Alexei Surkov (center) conversing with British writer James Aldridge and his wife Dinah during the SSOD 4th conference in the Friendship House.