General Information

Original Title

Pobeg iz Gulaga

Author/Creator

Martins, Hardy, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Germany, 2001.

Physical Description

VHS (154 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

As prisoner of war Clemens Forell, a German soldier during WW II, is sentenced to a labour camp in far east Siberia. After four years working in the mines he escapes from the camp (in 1949) and tries to get home to his wife and children. For three years he journeys through Siberia. An odyssey of 14,000 kilometers, set against a backdrop of desolate and inhospitable landscape, beset by danger (from both animals and humans). Constantly battling the worst nature can throw at him, Forell makes his way, step by step towards Persia and the longed-for freedom. Sometimes riding on trains, sometimes by boat, mostly on foot, he never knows if his next step won't be his last. His prosecutor Kamenev is always right behind him, and more than once it seems that Forell is captured again. A ficticious and tedious story telling more of historical revisionsim in early 21st century than of the situation in the GULAG or the Soviet Union during the 1940s.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Escape from Gulag

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0520	Available	-	-