This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to understand why more than 60 million Soviet citizens were sent to the camps from 1918 to 1956, how such a massive confinement could take place during two generations. From the Solovki in the north-west to the Kolima in Siberia, from Lenine to Kroutchev, a polar geography is erected into the Gulag system. One does not escape from camps. After ten years of imprisonment, one dies. Some survived, some left traces; they witness: organisation, work and discipline, but also resistance, repression and revolt.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journe...
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St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the f...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and inc...