Ashes in the Snow (2018)

Directed by

Marius A. Markevicius

Genre

drama film

Country

Lithuania, United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

15

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 130 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1941, a teenage girl named Lina is deported from Lithuania to a Soviet labor camp with her mother and brother. She uses her drawings to secretly record what happens to her and her family as they struggle to survive the harsh conditions.

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What happens

Ashes in the Snow is a 2018 war drama film based on the 2011 best selling novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. The film is a coming-of-age tale of a young teenager named Lina who, with her mother and younger brother, was deported from her native Lithuania to a Soviet gulag amid Stalin's occupation of the Baltic region during World War II. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings. Ashes in the Snow stars Aistė Diržiūtė, Bel Powley, Martin Wallström, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Jonah Hauer-King, Peter Franzén and Sophie Cookson. It had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on 21 September 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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