Underplayed Gems

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich poster
Directed by
Caspar Wrede
Genre
drama film, prison film
Country
United Kingdom, United States, Norway
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film shows a single day in a Soviet labor camp. A prisoner named Ivan Denisovich endures the harsh routines and small injustices of camp life.

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What happens

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Norwegian: En dag i Ivan Denisovitsj' liv) is a 1970 biographical drama film based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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