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

Caspar Wrede's profoundly stark and bleak yet rarely seen adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic novel.

Released in 1970, the film faithfully presents a single day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - superbly portrayed by Tom Courtenay - who is serving a ten year prison sentence in one of Soviet Russia's infamous Siberian gulags.

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Film & Animation

[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.

[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.

[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.