The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
2023
7.6 (8)
56 min
French
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The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Zadig Productions, Ethan Productions, ARTE
Keywords
- soviet union
- freedom of speech
- anti-communism
- gulag
- human rights
- russian history
- labor camp
- stalinism
- political repression
- portrait of an artist
- russian literature
- political documentary
- social & cultural documentary
- soviet union history
- controversial book
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Top Cast
Sandy Boizard as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bruno Abraham-Kremer as Self - Reader (voice)
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Top Crew
Jérôme Lambert · Director
Philippe Picard · Director
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