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100 minutes from the life of Ivan Denisovich (2021)

100 minutes from the life of Ivan Denisovich poster
Original title
Иван Денисович
Directed by
Gleb Panfilov
Genre
drama film
Country
Russia
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
16
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Soviet prisoner endures a single day in a Siberian labor camp. The film focuses on the small routines and hardships of survival under brutal conditions.

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What happens

Ivan Denisovich, also in English speaking regions titled as 100 Minutes (Russian: Иван Денисович) is a 2021 Russian historical war drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov, a film adaptation based on the story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The film premiered at the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival. It was theatrically released on September 23, 2021 by Central Partnership. This was Panfilov’s final film before his death 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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