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Solovki

Solovki

Solovki Special Purpose Camps

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Documentary

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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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Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

79 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

16 May 1929

Country

Soviet Union

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