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Kolyma: Road of Bones (2017)

Kolyma: Road of Bones poster
Original title
Kolyma - Straße der Knochen
Directed by
Stanislaw Mucha
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany, Russia
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker retraces the journey his father was forced to take to a Soviet gulag in 1952. He drives along a remote road in Russia's Far East that was built by prisoners. The film shows the landscape and meets local people along the way.

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What happens

Kolyma – Straße der Knochen ist ein Dokumentarfilm des polnischen Regisseurs Stanisław Mucha (* 1970) von 2017. Die Dokumentation entstand, als Mucha um die 2000 km entlang der Fernstraße R504 im Russlands Fernen Osten fuhr, welche auch die „Straße der Knochen“ (selten: Straße des Todes) genannt wird. Deren Verlauf entspricht in weiten Teilen der heutigen R504. Mucha wollte den Weg nachzeichnen, den sein Vater 1952, der in ein Gulag-Arbeitslager deportiert wurde, gehen musste. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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