One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Part 1 of 10)

[JohnPreedy]

I also read the book and saw the film about 40 years ago!

What struck me most forcibly was that Ivan Denisovich, after a day in a life that many people would think was impossible to live through, felt that he had had a good day, It's truly a tribute to the human qualities of adaptability and optimism. It would have been easy to give up and die, but he adapted and survived, just like Solzhenitsyn who went on to leave us, in his literature, an extended testament to the cruelty of Stalin's regime.

[ecnerwal999]

This is what socialism/communism looks like, yet the masses continue to shout for it.

[TheCoopz95]

I have to read this for english and it sucks balls....

[twobluehorses]

@TheCoopz95 Next time try reading it with your eyes open.

[TheCoopz95]

@twobluehorses Next time try having a valid opinion

[twobluehorses]

@TheCoopz95 It is valid. Solzhenitsyn was a fine writer and he revealed the true face of a evil society. If you didn't see that when you were assigned the book to read then you either had your eyes closed or indulged in the same willful blindness that kept the Soviet system in power for 70 years.

[lyrensutz]

Thank you so much for uploading this stark, brilliant film. It's been 39 years since I last saw it. It has haunted me all these years.

[mcleanartists]

Ever clean the heads on your VCR?

[BluesHonkey]

this book is a gem. it is very grim and bleak and harrowing yet there is a fundamental humanity to it that is inexplicably uplifting. i think A.S. was saying that there was truly a socialist impulse for the good in people -- it came out only in the grimmest of conditions. quite a masterful novel

[ifithurtsgo2church]

Man, i'd rather be killed then live like that.

[speculativeboy]

Thank you greatly for this! Haven't seen this film for a long, long time.

[griffman3210]

boring book

[zenoist2]

There werent any pictures or portraits of stalin in gulag.

Prisoners were regarded as not comrades and not allowed them.

[unclejuniorsoprano]

Questions:

1) What's the infirmary like? I doubt there'd be sexy nurses to chase. 2) Would a zek have to make up the days he's out sick? 3) Were the guards faggots? There are no women around. 4) How could a zek survive even 1 day in a cell that's -27? 5) Why weren't the zeks allowed to wear any extra clothes when they went out to work? One of the zeks got 10 days in a cell for questioning the guards when they were told to take off their shirts.

This is an unforgettable movie.

[jonnyqwst]

The filth, hopelessness and oppression is well adapted in this version. If the British accents get you down, can't do nothin' for you. That's like saying HBO Rome is crap because they're not speaking Italian.

[brownflowerable]

what's the yellow stuf the Shukhov is eating?

[JillianValle]

can anyone help me with a thesis statement for a paper based on the Dehumanizaion theory applied to One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (the book, haven't seen the movie yet) PLEASEEE??!?!?!?!

[ultramarine218]

@JillianValle Um, ya. Just take a look at the way the prisoners were treated... there's your thesis.

[joelmorley5]

The real Ivan would never have overlooked a fish eye! Preposterous!

[worstedcdogg]

its hard to watch when they all have british accents

[TheChandlerLindsey]

Ugh.... Not looking forward to reading this for English... :/

[chave015]

@TheChandlerLindsey Me either. :/

haha. Test tomorrow!

[Armydude5678]

I'm reading this book for honors history

[giji777]

READ THE BOOK IT'S THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[grandslam1998]

40 below zero and no work. Should be 50 below zero. Tarts!

[TrompelaMort1989]

Thanks a lot! I've been wanting to see this movie for ages!

[WizzSpell]

Great to see this film again. Thanks very much for uploading, really enjoyed it. I wish they would release it on DVD, it's a classic.

[gukow1]

I wonder why western people love to look at the life of the Soviet criminals?? For you, it exotic? You do not have their criminals? You have no prisons?

[sergiorgio2000]

@gukow1 Italian "Gulag" movie:

watch?v=LueEQhRIDQo

[CLnomnom]

@gukow1 dumbass. it shows how life was like in the labour camp during ths soviet times; 1951. and Shukhov was not a criminal, he did absolutely nothing and this is the fucking point of the movie -.-

[gukow1]

@CLnomnom

I do not think that the British can reliably show the life in Soviet labor camps. They do not know much. Therefore, this film is not a benchmark of real life. Errors in the judicial system exist in any state. In the United States or Britain, too, could be imprisoned an innocent man. In my opinion this film is a dull and meaningless. He may like to the only stupid snobs.

[grandslam1998]

@gukow1 You sound like a snob to me. I think you may be dull and meaningless? Take a good look at yourself. This really is a fine film!

[KseniaBar]

@CLnomnom Ignore trolles as we do in Russia. They are helpless.

[mslaughter23]

shut up @jakdaxter6

[invinoveritas1221]

actually,  "Колыма́". I've lost elder family in the Gulag. So because you've read a book you know? FUCK YOU jakaxter6

[invinoveritas1221]

wow, sometimes something is so obscure that there is no room for sarcasm. and it's kolyma you fucking jackass.

[dubmeisterdeluxe]

Many thanks for this :)

[sotoj159]

I finished reading the book about 4 months ago....I liked it, but it was kind of bland...kind of boring really. I'm glad I read it though.

[Noodles37UK]

This is mentioned in Midnight Express ( book ). Always been curious. Thanks uploader.

[shamil84]

unfortunately movie doesnt taste like the book for example in the book the man who looks at the thermometer originally says "how can i warm it with my breath in this fucking cold." in the book there are so many cusses and a naturalist manner which make the book very effective and also funny.this book is not a tradgedy but it is a fight of a man which has become senseless and steady as a rock as a result of stalin's tyranny.

[shamil84]

asshole stalin's shit

[HeathenLoveGod]

The great Tom Courtenay.

[isabell805]

Unbelievable book.

Read it for honors english.

[Allanlegacy43]

Wonder how long I could have lasted there before I cried for my mommy, ha ha. She would have probably been in the next compound, so very evil those places were.

[esamarkuc]

Wow. This is not as i imagined Suhov to be like. Not at all.

[jakdaxter6]

It would be nice if they actually got an actor that could pronounce Kolya correctly

[zombiejon]

@jakdaxter6

You're right. I can't believe these fucking idiots. They go and make one of the best movies ever. Based on one of the greatest books ever written, then they go and fuck it all up by casting an actor that can't pronounce Kolya correctly. Fuck this shit.. they should be shot... I'm not watching the rest of this..

Hi! I'm sarcasm do I know you?

I'm just messing with ya. This movie is great! Read the book too if you have the time.

[grandslam1998]

@zombiejon Talk tidy. Feel the words!

[Allanlegacy43]

37 below, dam I couldnt even think in that cold.

[halsamdu]

@Allanlegacy43 If there is no wind you can walk, sit and smoke a cigarette, make some works with many attentions. Better 37 below than 40 positive for working. This is sure. But without wind. If there is wind, you cannot do anything, my friend. Ah..remember: do not touch any metal like iron at 37 below: the skin of you fingers will be damaged.

[rustaayy]

Shukhov looks like Sam Worthington

[guionlawes]

one of my favorite books

[Pavilion1078]

Thanks for this video. I saw this fim in 1971 at a cinema I worked at as a projectionist, it ran for 3 or 4 weeks. How the soviets treated what they interpreted to be a theat to the nation, and that happened in fairly recent history.

[ronbro77]

thanks for posting this...I have been looking for this one for years.....can't find it anywhere on the net...haven't seen it since the 70's....brilliant film...awesome!

[Flyingwolf46]

I think the original stared Tom Cortney, but the trailer suggest a new remake. But I'd like to see both

[Flyingwolf46]

Ih sorry mate it IS Tom

[greygue]

But it's still a good day to all concerned.

[greygue]

This opening credit scene is so totally like a sci-fi movie where the space-craft hovers in to dock with the space-station.

Except for the fact the outer-space-station is actually a Siberian Stalinist prison camp, and everyone involved in this narrative is utterly totally doomed.

[ladiesmutman]

thanks