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Women of the Gulag
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Wikipedia article
'Women of the Gulag' is a 2018 US short documentary film[https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-film-academy-narrows-the-list-of-contenders-in-nine-categories-1203091592/ Oscars: Film Academy Narrows the List of Contenders in Nine Categories] // Variety directed by Marianna Yarovskaya.[https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-look-in-the-mirror-a-conversation-with-marianna-yarovskaya-about-women-of-the-gulag/ A Look in the Mirror: A Conversation with Marianna Yarovskaya About 'Women of the Gulag'] 'Los Angeles Review of Books' and based on the book 'Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives' by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013).[https://www.documentary.org/film/women-gulag Women of the Gulag] at the International Documentary Association Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Mark Jonathan Harris, it was a Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee at the 2018 Academy Awards.[https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-film-academy-narrows-the-list-of-contenders-in-nine-categories-1203091592/ Oscars: Film Academy Narrows the List of Contenders in Nine Categories] 'Variety'
Synopsis
A collection of unique and candid interviews with women who survived the Stalin's repression of the 1930s. The film was shot for five years, the team found its six heroines in the most diverse and remote corners of the former Soviet Union in Ural, Far East, Sukhumi, and Moscow Oblast. Today, these women are well over eighty, but they continue to live and for each of them it was very important to tell their own story.[https://echo.msk.ru/blog/k_borovoi/2336181-echo/ Russian-American film 'Women of the GULAG' hit the short list of Oscar nominations] // Echo of MoscowPallot, Judith, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, "[http://www.kinokultura.com/2019/65r-gulag-women.shtml/The Stories of Six Women as Last Survivors of the Gulag]", "Kinokultura".Prestridge, James (11 January 2019). "[https://closeupculture.com/2019/01/11/interview-marianna-yarovskayas-short-film-women-of-the-gulag-shines-a-light-on-russias-forgotten-horrors/Interview: Marianna Yarovskaya's Short Film Women Of The Gulag Shines A Light On Russia's Forgotten Horrors]", "Close-Up Culture".
Critical reception
The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award in the "best documentary short" category. The film premiered at the 41st Moscow International Film Festival in 2018. It won festivals in Iceland,Hoover Institution (9 August 2019) "[https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2019/08/09/women-of-the-gulag-wins-documentary-film-award/]" US/California, South Korea, Hong Kong, France, Canada, Croatia, and Russia. The film was screened privately for Secretary of State George Shultz. The film won two awards at the "Window to Europe" festival, Vyborg, an EBS Award in Seoul, Korea, a Critics Choice Award in Hong Kong, among others. The film's Russian TV premiere took place in May 2021, but the film was censored.Sulkin, Oleg (11 January 2019). "[https://www.golosameriki.com/a/women-of-the-gulag-censored-in-russia/5880829.html/ ]", "Voice of America".
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