One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Part 10 of 10)

[MagicMutilator6000]

Ahh the cells, they seem to be the fear of many!

[Surenity]

My grandfather was sent to the gulag camps, but after five years he managed to escape from Siberia, and made it to a village where they kept him hidden until he managed to board a train and make his way back to Soviet Armenia.

[MikSmith72]

A brilliant adaption of a brilliant book. Thank you very much for sharing this:):):)

[thermopylae85]

German greatgrandpa was sent to Siberia.It killed alot of his comrades.RIP

[PRLcafe]

read Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski "a world apart...", published few years after ww2.

Not as long, yet almost as powerful as solzhenitzyns, yes this sick communist system where the power is given to "working majority" was and is the sickest of systems for human torture, brutality and destruction. rabid dogs of humanity -- marx, engels, trocki, lenin -- evil, false prophets, amazing that some people still consider these ideas as valid..brrrrr

[chimko1111]

Now i can pass english 30, THANKS!

[unclejuniorsoprano]

I have now watched this video 5 times over the past two days, and I plan on watching it again. That is how powerful it is. The only thing I could add to this movie are more "bastards." That is what they called one another unless they were on friendlier terms.

[unclejuniorsoprano]

This was a very important film. Solzhenitsyn did his best to warn the Western world of the atrocities of the USSR, but the liberals at Harvard thought he was an old fool.

[Abingtoncricket]

Thanks so much for uploading this fantastic film. Very sobering and sad. It captures the pure horror of the Gulag. For more reading i would recommend Varlam Shalamov's 'Kolyma Tales' and 'Graphite'. Also 'Man is Wolf To man' and 'Gulag'

Again many thanks for taking the time to upload such an important film.

[CrispinRobles]

There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

[fraucha]

Thanks, I had not seen this since it first aired.

[iorixs]

humanity is a disgrace before God. may he have mercy

[omad84]

thanks for this man

[RonDarling12]

excellent movie, very rare, many thanks to you for uploading this!

[Lepiratepoulpe]

...verry good adaptation of the book.

Americans...If you have been living under a rock...Please search FEMA camps.

[Allanlegacy43]

Read the book GULAG by Anne Applebaum, it has been out for a few years, it will absolutely amaze and anger you to what really happend in the Gulags. One anecdote was a NKVD agent took a girl to the opera and after it was over he drove straight to Lubenka prison and arrested her and she was sent to the Gulag. I wish these actors would have spoken in Russsian accents, it would have given it more authenticity. But still really good, well done.

[Kelly14UK]

@Allanlegacy43 These Soviets weren't that much better than the Nazis. They disgust me. I've read parts of this book Gulag. In fact it was something Applebaum said about The Long Walk ( Slavomir Rawicz ) that made me doubt its authenticity. Read Michael Kruppa's Shallow Graves in Siberia. Good escape story.

[CaptainCook1778]

I think that it was absoloutely faithful to the book. It is rare when the film and book are so close together that you can say "Thats just how I imagined it." Its amazing. This is the book on film. Well done.

[Schnuggiputzii]

@CaptainCook1778 that is SO true! I soooooo agree with you! Most of it was just how i pictured it in my head while reading before watching the film!

[ravenshireful]

i know it is allways said that the book is better than the film. here this is still the case, though not by much. it is a rare film, thank you.

[ANDiEE420]

you just saved me a lot of reading, thanks man. :)

[omad84]

@ANDiEE420 terrible attitude to a marvellous and TINY book

[buddhika216]

Read the book and watched this.  thank you!

[THEBIRDISWATCHING]

Thank you very much for uploading these.

[Goose555111]

well done - sombre film - makes you feel lucky we dont live in those days with a medival government

[spvkgn]

I read a book by Solzhenitsyn yesterday. Thanks for sharing this great film, it's rare stuff