Watch towers, barbed wire, brutality and starvation at every turn. Those signature images are familiar to viewers of the many Hollywood films about the Holocaust. But when it comes to the Soviet gulag ...

A film about one man's escape from a Russian Gulag will be the only British feature to compete for the Best Documentary prize at this year's Raindance Film Festival. Stuart Urban, the director of cult ...

Several recent Russian films have involved the Gulag, but only as scenery. Is it possible to make a good film about the Gulag itself? And, more importantly, is it necessary? In September, the Russian ...

“It’s based on a true story.” Or “It’s truth, but stranger than fiction.” Or even, “You couldn’t make it up.” When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves as ...

Mystery surrounds an Oscar-tipped epic about a group of prisoners who escape a Soviet gulag and trek 4,500 miles to freedom. Some feel The Way Back, starring Irish actors Colin Farrell and 16-year-old ...

The Gulag, the system of concentration camps through which the Soviet Union carried out murderous political repression, is something many Russians and Ukrainians would rather forget. But while the ...