Women of the Gulag 53 min (Director's cut) DVD with book "Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remakable Lives"

Women of the Gulag is a 2018 documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory (2013).

Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin. The Gulag was first captured by Solzhenitsyn in his opus, Gulag Archipelago. Never before the stories of women and women’s experience in these camp was told in an international documentary film. A collection of unique and candid interviews with women who survived the Stalin's repression of the 1930s.

Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee, 2018 Academy Awards.

• Please note: Home Video shipping prices and Educational shipping prices vary. Please choose the shipping method that correlates with your order.
• If ordering more than one video, each additional video will add $3 to the initial shipping price.
• Please allow up to 2-3 weeks for transit time.
• All orders subject to acceptance
• All sales subject to Myfilms License Agreement
• See 'About Us' for Return & Credit policy

Shipping Methods Offered:

• USA - Educational/Institutional Use DVD
• Canada - Educational/Institutional DVD
• Other International - Educational/Institutional Use DVD
• USA - Home Use DVD
• Other International - Home Use DVD

Details

• Running time: 53 min.
• Year released: 2018
• Color: Y
• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Subtitled: Y
• For classroom: Y
• Study guide: N
• Grade level: 6th and up

Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives (Hoover Institution Press Publication Book):

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from
different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand
accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century.

Credits:

Director: MARIANNA YAROVSKAYA

Producers: MARIANNA YAROVSKAYA and PAUL RODERICK GREGORY

Executive Producers: MITCHELL W BLOCK and MARK JONATHAN HARRIS

Reviews:

"Slave labor under Stalin was not just for men. There were also women. Now, Marianna Yarovskaya has told their story in 'Women of the Gulag," the first film dedicated to the some of the Stalin's most vulnerable victims. Beautifully shot and capturing the desolation of being exiled to the end of the earth, the film describes the Gulag as it was lived and the indomitable will of its female victims to survive."

David Satter, Author of The Less You Know the Better You Sleep

My congratulations and gratitude to the film’s director, Marianna Yarovskaya. Gratitude for the look, which we need as much as oxygen today, at our inescapable horror, our damnation and the ineradicable stain of Russian grief and shame. My thanks to the filmmaker who spoke out with a true intention, close to me, about events that are just as terrifying as they are sickening.

Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev, an Oscar nominated filmmaker ("Leviathan")

In recent years, under President Putin, the Stalin period has come to be viewed with ambiguity by politicians, writers, film makers, and regrettably the public. The stories of the victims of the Gulag, told by simple people who had little or no understanding of why this was happening to them, make an excellent antidote to creeping historical amnesia.

Anne Appelbaum - Columnist, The Washington Post Author (Gulag: A History – 2004 Pulitzer Prize)

...I can only be supportive and grateful to Marianna Yarovskaya for bringing to life the stories of the women survivors of the Gulag in her film... for providing a chance for new generations of Russians to start repairing the bridges to that time.

Yermolai Solzhenitsyn

The film Women of the Gulag is an important document of the era.

The USSR was a huge zone of human suffering.
Inside that zone there was also a hell that contained its powerless slaves—the GULAG.
But within that hell, there was an even more terrible hell.
Varlam Shalamov — the great writer who lived through the GULAG hell — dsaid the women in the camps were slaves of the slaves.
Their experience was so horrific that eyewitnesses were afraid to describe it in detail.
I could not understand how you can make a film about «what a person should not know, should not see, and if he has, he is better off dead,» as Shalamov wrote.
Marianna Yarovskaya has managed to do it. Her heroines, who survived the GULAG, say almost nothing about their suffering. But I could hear their desperate screams during their silences.
To go through such suffering without going mad is a spiritual feat.
To make such a film is a moral feat.
I would compare the appearance of Women of the Gulag with the appearance of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago.
The Gulag Archipelago was awarded the Nobel Prize.
I am glad that there is the opportunity to award an Oscar to Women of the Gulag.

Vladimir Bukovsky - Regime Opponent, Presidential Candidate, Dissident