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The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke.The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was also cited as a source of "similar incidents" portrayed in the film. The film was shot in London and in Norway. [1] Seva Novgorodtsev, a Russian emigre who owns a company called Russian Roulette, served as technical adviser. [4]
Films about the Gulag, the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labour camps which were set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Ashes in the Snow is a World War II drama film based on The New York Times best selling novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.The film is a coming-of-age tale of a young teenager named Lina who, with her mother and younger brother, was deported from her native Lithuania to a Soviet gulag amid Stalin's occupation of the Baltic region during World War II.
The Edge (Russian: Край, translit. Kray) is a 2010 Russian historical drama film directed by Alexei Uchitel.The film was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was also selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards [1] but it didn't make the final shortlist.
Yarovskaya is the daughter of Russian actor and director Marianna Yablonskaya and a rocket scientist, Arkady Yarovsky. [ 8 ] She first studied journalism at Moscow State University , before moving to California and studying film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts .
When Yekaterina Maksimova can't afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it's probably the most efficient route. “It seems like I’m in some ...
On the way he meets a Japanese prisoner who speaks some English. He testifies to the military officer that he is totally innocent and asks him to contact the royal family. Most of the movie is a very realistic and ugly picture of the terrible plight of prisoners in Siberia during the Stalin years. Human life has absolutely no value.