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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Born December 11, 1918 · Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]

Died August 3, 2008 · aged 89

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout…

Known For

The First CircleThe First Circle · 1992
The First Circle
★ 5.01992
MovieThrillerTV Movie
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
The First CircleThe First Circle · 1973
The First Circle
★ 6.51973
MovieDrama
The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
100 Minutes100 Minutes · 2021
100 Minutes
★ 7.02021
MovieDrama
100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
The Love-Girl and the InnocentThe Love-Girl and the Innocent · 1973
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
★ 5.61973
MovieDramaTV Movie
The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving ten years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich · 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
★ 6.71970
MovieDrama
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
Keep ForeverKeep Forever · 2007
Keep Forever
2007
MovieDrama
Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intelligence officer. The traitor is sure that he will not be identified “by the phone's strangled voice. There can be no such technology. But, on the instructions of the Chekists, such a technique was developed in Marfino's "sharashka" near Moscow by convict engineers and scientists.
BBC Play of the MonthBBC Play of the Month · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
★ 5.21965
SeriesDrama
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
The First CircleThe First Circle · 2006
The First Circle
★ 6.22006
SeriesDrama
The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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