Solovki

Name: Solovki
Director: Aleksandr Cherkasov
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1929-05-16
Duration: 79 min

192979m

★ 0.0

Documentary

Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of criminals via an aesthetics of normalcy.

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