Within the Whirlwind

IMDb link: 1142804
IMDb rating: 6.8 (1,198 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler and others

Release date: 4 Aug 2010
Release year: 2009
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Keywords: year 1934, kazan university soviet union, russian literature professor, ban on teaching, magazine contributor, communist party member, moscow soviet union, membership surrendered, interrogated, siberian work camp

Plot:

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

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