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Gulag is a 1985 drama film directed by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video. It was reviewed by the New York Times. [2] Synopsis
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.
Gulager's first major film role was in Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) with Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan in his only movie role as a villain, followed by a supporting part in the racing film Winning (1969) opposite Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; in Peter Bogdanovich's drama The Last Picture Show (1971); and opposite John Wayne in McQ (1974).
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.
In the 1992 HBO movie Stalin, Roshan Seth was cast as Beria. In the 1999 film adaptation Animal Farm based on George Orwell 's novel, Napoleon 's bodyguard Pincher represents Beria. Beria appears in the third episode ("Superbomb") of the four-part 2007 BBC docudrama series Nuclear Secrets , played by Boris Isarov.
The serial-killer movie that began a 40-year franchise, "Halloween" is centered around Michael Myers, a psycho killer who escapes from a mental hospital on Halloween and returns to his hometown on ...
Films about the Gulag (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Films about Soviet repression" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
"Breaking the Silence: The Maria Soledad Case" looks at the murder of a 17-year-old girl in 1990, which sparked national outrage in Argentina.