Gulag (film)

Gulag

Directed by	Roger Young
Release dates	January 13, 1985

Gulag is a 1985 drama film by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video.

Plot

TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a World athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet Union. Almon is imprisoned and interrogated over several days by prison official Bukovsky who ultimately forces him to confess to being a spy for the United States. Though promised with release for doing so, Almon is instead transported to a railway station and placed aboard a train on a Stolypin prison car with other political prisoners bound for a labour camp near the Arctic Circle.

After arriving, Almon meets a fellow foreign prisoner, a heroic Englishman who teaches him how to survive the brutal life of the camp. In time, after learning that his ultimate fate in the camp will eventually be death through hazardous labour, Almon and the Englishman conspire together to plot an escape to Norway.

Cast

David Keith as Mickey Almon
Malcolm McDowell as Kenneth "Englishman" Barrington
David Suchet as Matvei
Warren Clarke as Hooker
John McEnery as Diczek
Nancy Paul as Susan Almon
Brian Pettifer as Vlasov
George Pravda as Bukovsky
Eugene Lipinski as Yuri
Shane Rimmer as Jay
Ray Jewers as TV Interviewer
Bogdan Kominowski as Stolypin Guard

External links

Gulag at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Roger Young

Bitter Harvest (1981)
Lassiter (1984)
Gulag (1985)
Love Among Thieves (1987)
The Squeeze (1987)
The Bourne Identity (1988)
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
Geronimo (1993)
Getting Gotti (1994)
Joseph (1995)
Moses (1995)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Kiss the Sky (1999)
Jesus (1999)
One Special Night (1999)
The Thin Blue Lie (2000)
Dracula (2002)
Imperium: Augustus (2003)
The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Hercules (2005)
Barabbas (2012)

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