With a single pencil stroke, Stalin indicated the line where he wanted a railway through the inhospitable frozen landscape. For four years, 80.000 Gulag prisoners were put to work in horrendous conditions. The death of Stalin was their liberation. Špidla goes looking for witnesses from that period.
Also in this combined programme
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War Is Over
The Great War still isn’t over. Last part of a trilogy on memories of the First World War (1914-1918).
Film details
- Country of production
- Czech Republic
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 52'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
