Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

100 Minutes (2021)

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 ...

Keep Forever (2007)

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 intel ...

The First Circle (1992)

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 Circle (1973)

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. ...

The Love-Girl and the Innocent (1973)

A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for b ...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)

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. ...

Krebsstation (1970)

Pavel Rusanov is admitted to an overcrowded cancer ward. ...

Case at the Station Krechetovka (1964)

The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History (2023)

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. ...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three ...

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (2015)

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot. ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree (2008)

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. ...

Solzhenitsyn: Trilogy (2008)

Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed. ...

The Knot (1998)

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The documentary shot in Solzhenitsyn's home shows his everyday life and covers his reflections on Russian history ...

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was stage ...