I actually met Mr. Herman at my college. Very nice man. Excellent book. Read it.

Jim Rohn introduced this movie to me

Thank you , I known it from Jim Rohn's audio motivation

Funny to see Finnish landmarks being depicted as Russian. Some of the footage was filmed in Kokkola, just few hundred meters from our home at the time. Didn't even know they made a movie there..

A great movie of an incredible story with a powerful message. A great reference point to cheer you up if you are watching during the COVID lock down!

One Powerful Movie!!!!!!

Savage a great underrated actor of all time Pete knows

I’m here for Francesca Annis. 🌹😘

I sit here on a cold March evening, a pipe in hand, a sweet tobacco to fill it, and a fascinating film. What do I see? One of my heroes, Willie Nelson makes an appearance. Lovely!

This is of course a short movie, and hard to get everything trough from the book and real life events. But the episode in jail(spets Corpus), with the beatings and torture, he was there for a whole year in that little room, with 15 other people, many whom died during the stay. With a bowl of hot "spiced" water and a little ball of porridge for each day. They got a shower every 10 days, never new or washed clothes. They just treated their clothes with chemicals(carbolic acid), to kill the lice/vermin, that burned on your skin after the shower. It only helped for a little while tough, the next day the vermin was on them again eating the prisoners up. For 55 nights in a row he was beaten to until the point of death, passing blood in his stool after first night already. Because the beatings didn´t work they started another torture in the form of putting him in a dark room, beating him with boards and burning him with hot iron. After that night he was broken and spit his torturer in the head, after that he spent 1 month in the infermery, before going back to the cell. He never gave anyone up tough, which was the purpose of the torture and the political prison he was in. Creating more prisoners with false charges and false witnesses, to supply more slaves for their death-camps. /peace

I appreciate that they made this movie, but it was disappointing how much they cut out of the book and glossed over. The movie gives very little emphasis on how long and brutal his prison stay was. There were so many horrific scenes in the book that didn’t make it to the screen. And sometimes they just down right changed things from the book. Like the part where Galina tells him she is going away for eight weeks. In the book he was very frustrated because she didn’t tell him. Why change some thing like that to be the exact opposite from what happened in the book? It doesn’t make any sense. Anyway, I would love to see this movie remade and done right.

I remember when this came out. I remember when the real Victor Herman did some talk shows around it

this is an important story stalin and hitler were two sides of the same coin

What do you prefer isolation or the mines?

Queria encontrar dublado em português

Gostaria que esse filme fosse reematerizado em DVD autorado com dublagem

The irony is that Willie Nelson could have provided a very nice soundtrack. Instead, we are subjected to an awful soundtrack, made worse by degradation from copying. Early '80s electronica was just a horrible sound even at the time.

The story of Victor is more like David Goggins story

Terrible and beautiful. Confused about the ending though. Was the last scene just a dream? Read DOLGUN, another American in the Gulag.

FAFO essentially

He favored socialism over capitalism and went to live in Russia. Let this be the example...

factually incorrect. you would only get 15 or 25 years in the camps. 10 years was not an option.