Film
My Own Personal Gulag
Documentary · 1h 24m · in cinemas from 17 November
Where to see it
2 screenings in 1 city
2 screenings in Amsterdam
- 11:15
About
An essay film made from archival footage that sets Communist propaganda against accounts of the Soviet labour camps, including voices of Gorky and Solzhenitsyn.
Lina Gorbaneva's documentary My Own Personal Gulag is an essay film about the contrast between the Communist idea of reeducation and the reality of the Soviet labour camps. It works with archival material: scenes from films by Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Oleksandr Dovzhenko are mixed with documentary images, animation and recovered recordings of the White Sea Canal construction. Written fragments give space to opposing views, including Maxim Gorky, who defended the Stalin regime and called the Gulag a historical experiment, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who described the camps' horrors in The Gulag Archipelago. The film examines the divide between propaganda and reality.
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Facts
- Director
- Lina Gorbaneva
- Written by
- Lina Gorbaneva
- Countries
- Spain
- Studios
- Eddie Saeta
Good to know
- Running time
- 1 hour 24 minutes
- Language
- Russian
- In Dutch cinemas
- From 17 November 2026
Questions
How long is My Own Personal Gulag?
1 hour 24 minutes. Most cinemas add 15 to 20 minutes of trailers first, so plan for about 1 hour 44 minutes.
Where can I see My Own Personal Gulag?
There are 2 screenings at 1 cinema in 1 city. Pick your city above for the times.
What language is My Own Personal Gulag in?
My Own Personal Gulag is in Russian. A foreign-language film normally plays in its original version with Dutch subtitles.
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