Gulag

Gulag (1985)

A cornered man is capable of anything

Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.

Date of release
1985-01-13
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (17)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Roger Young

Casting

Interesting facts

Gulag is a 1985 drama and film directed by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video. It was reviewed by the New York Times.

Production

Production company Lorimar claimed the story was based on fact. Gulag was actually based on material gathered from Soviet dissidents who succeeded in emigrating to Israel. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was also cited as a source of "similar incidents" portrayed in the film.

The film was shot in London and in Norway. Seva Novgorodtsev, a Russian emigre who owns a company called Russian Roulette, served as technical adviser.

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