Gulag (film)

Gulag
Directed by Roger Young
Produced by Andrew Adelson
Written by Dan Gordon
Based on story by Yehousha Ben-Porat
Dan Gordon
Raphael Shauli
Production
company
Distributed by Lorimar
Release date
  • January 13, 1985 (1985-01-13) (U.S.)
Country USA
Language English

Gulag is a 1985 drama film by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video. It was reviewed by the New York Times.[1]

Plot

TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a international athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet Union. Almon is imprisoned and interrogated over several days by prison official Bukovsky who ultimately forces him to confess to being a spy for the United States. Though promised with release for doing so, Almon is instead transported to a railway station and placed aboard a train on a Stolypin prison car with other political prisoners bound for a Gulag labour camp near the Arctic Circle.

After arriving, Almon meets a fellow foreign prisoner, a heroic Englishman who teaches him how to survive the brutal life of the camp. In time, after learning that his ultimate fate in the camp will eventually be death through hazardous labour, Almon and the Englishman conspire together to plot an escape to Norway.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "TV REVIEW; 'GULAG' DRAMA ON HOME BOX OFFICE". nytimes.com. January 17, 1985. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
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