One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Part 3 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

[Allanlegacy43]

Why is man so cruel to one another?

[Nives7777777]

man is a wolf to man

[bullettoothburrows]

@21a45 To work.

[Xhai221]

@21a45 your writing in english bro.

[mcleanartists]

@Allanlegacy43 They're Communists.

[NewUser21111]

I would have never survived this hellhole. Just give me the bullet. Fuck Communism.

[ChildishxCharm]

@unclejuniorsoprano there in the northeastern part of Siberia. And they chopped ice for no reason but to be punished, or to work for reason known only by the guards or maybe a place to dump the dead.

[21a45]

Why did they go outside the camp?

Cant undestand english

[speculativeboy]

@Nives7777777 Thats what Thomas Hobbes would like us too believe. Whether it is in fact true is another matter.

[chimko1111]

They left out alot of shit...

[unclejuniorsoprano]

It's as though they are on the moon. I wonder how far they had to walk before they reached the work site? Like the man said, why did the authorities have them chop ice with a pick axe?

[unclejuniorsoprano]

I would rather be dead than to have to spend even a single day as a zek in that prison camp. Horrid.