Viktoria_Shvareva
Joined Jun 2020
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I really loved the muted BW cinematography. Very beautiful and tragic images and tableaux in the film. It has a higher budget than some of the other Gulag camp films, but it still feels like an indie film, raw and real. It is so sad what the Soviet Union did to the Baltic nations with the deportations. We must remember these events with films like this.
Independent film covering a group of dissidents in the Soviet Union gulag. The close up cinematography has an edgy look like Lars von Trier's work with Robby Muller. Since this film only had a $2,500 budget, according to the producer, it really was quite impressive. I wasn't expecting a big multi-million dollar Hollywood film. Apparently the two lead actors are both from Russia and their accents really made the film authentic. Highly recommended if you want to watch a small independent movie about the Soviet camps that focuses on character.
I found it a very interesting film in that it did cover the Soviet genocide of its own Russian people, a subject few films really go into. It is estimated that around 65 million Russians were killed by their own Soviet government as cheap slave labor in the Gulag camps. I appreciated the research that went into this film.