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Within the Whirlwind
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Wikipedia article
'Within the Whirlwind' is a 2009 German film directed by Marleen Gorris and based on the book by Yevgenia Ginzburg. It stars Emily Watson and Pam Ferris.http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/within-the-whirlwind-v509053 Watson has described the film as "the most stretching thing Ive done as a mature actress."[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8406563/Emily-Watson-Im-a-character-actor-who-gets-laid.html Emily Watson: "I'm a character actor who gets laid."]
Plot
During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, literature professor Yevgenia Ginzburg is falsely convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Soviet forced labour camp. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets Dr. Anton Walter (Ulrich Tukur), a Crimea German political prisoner who is a camp doctor in Kolyma. He recommends her for a position as a nurse in the camp infirmary. They fall in love and, slowly, Evgenia begins to come back to life.
Cast
*Emily Watson as Yevgenia Ginzburg
*Pam Ferris as Genia's mother
*Ian Hart as Beylin
*Ben Miller as Krasny
*Ulrich Tukur as Dr. Anton Walter
Distribution
As of 2011, 'Within the Whirlwind' has not been picked up for distribution. According to Watson, "It was delivered pretty much the day the market crashed so nobody was buying anything. You have to be very Zen. Walk away and say: 'I have no idea whats going to happen and its not in my hands. At the same time you never quite think that's going to happen."
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