Solovki (1929)
• May 16th, 1929 • 1h 19min
Documentary
Overview
Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of criminals via an aesthetics of normalcy.
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