Within the Whirlwind (2010)

90 min · Drama, drama film

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Directors

Marleen Gorris

Cast

Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Pam Ferris, Ben Miller, Monica Dolan, Jimmy Yuill, Agata Buzek, Benjamin Sadler, Lena Stolze

The story

During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, literature professor Yevgenia Ginzburg is falsely convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Soviet forced labour camp. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets Dr. Anton Walter, a Crimea German political prisoner who is a doctor in a Kolyma gulag labor camp.

Catalogue themes and tags

1940s, Forbidden Love, Forced Labour, Gefangennahme, Gulag, In Love with the Enemy, Innocence, Joseph Stalin, Komplott, Poem, Political Party, Secret Love, Sibiria, Socialism, Stalinism, Unhappy Love, Willkür, opression, romanze

Genres

Drama, drama film

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