An absolutely brilliant film !


I finally located a copy the other day and just got done with this. It is a brilliant film from the opening long view shot of the gulag in the icy wasteland to the same final shot. Courtney again shows why he is one of Britain's best actors.

The ennui of the daily life trying to struggle to stay warm and fed in the gulag is shown in minute detail. From the petty authority inflicted by the NKVD to -28 degree weather to survival techniques essential to survival above the Artic, the movie captures it all.

The movie is just as good as the book,which I recently re-read.Solzhenitsyn was a courageous hero for what he wrote while living in the Soviet Union under the heel of Brezhnev.

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