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.

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As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of partic...

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and em...

The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberati...

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...

About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsk...