Escape from Gulag

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
VHSOSA Film LibraryFL Record 0520Available--