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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)

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Release Date: Dec 7, 1970 Wide

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s is brought to the screen in this stark and spare adaptation by director Caspar Wrede, writer Ronald Harwood, and cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tom Courtenay is Ivan, who is a prisoner in the eighth year of a ten-year sentence at a Siberian labor camp. Ivan's day consists of small accomplishments that enable Ivan to retain his humanity during conditions of extreme oppression -- he does not get

G, 1 hr. 40 min.

Art House & International, Drama

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