If anyone has a suggestion to offer Sara Masters, please reply to her directly! Her e-mail address is mailto:saramasters@... Thanks. Steve ... From:...
I just recently picked up "August 1914", influenced by other Russian artists such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. How far did he get in this series? I don't know a...
Dam Mahoney's fine essay, "Traducing Solzhenitsyn," published recently in First Things, is now available on the web. Go to www.firstthings.com and click on the...
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Hi, the last section of my copy of The Gulag Archipelago contains a note which says that some parts from the Russian version have been omitted as being of...
About two and a half years ago I learned on this site that "one of the landmark novels of Soviet dissident literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The First...
I haven't heard anything about this production. I know of at least two earlier film versions: one from the mid-70s, made (I think) in Poland, that I remember...
While we are on the subject, I recall hearing about a movie version of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." I know it exists but could never find a copy....
Monday, October 18, 2004, 10:10:02 PM, you wrote: Just some results of a quick research: As for Panfilov, it seems that there have been financial issues, since...
... I think the film version of "One Day..." is passable. I liked seeing the novella "fleshed out". But I found the British accents a little distracting. I'm...
I just watched the TV version of First Circle and it was maddening. Like the comment on One Day..., this film couldn't decide was linguistic group should...
Although I am loathe to ask what I am sure is a stupid question, I am hoping someone will enlighten me as to what Gleb Nerzhin is referring to in the First...
According to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) no such movie has been made. One wonders how such a movie could be made. There do not even appear to be...
BTW, we're coming up soon on Aleksandr Isaevich's 86th birthday, December 11. (If I'm ever going to meet him, it had better happen soon!) Steve On Thu, 2 Dec...
I've been working on a screenplay for a film based on several memoirs, histories, and of course the monumental works of Solzhenitsyn for about 3 years. I'm on...
thank you so much, you have been alot of help! doctormidnight <doctormidnight@...> wrote: I've been working on a screenplay for a film based on several...
several dramatic films have been produced on the subject, mostly poor. one american television film was called simply "gulag" and used as its setting the ...
The Polish Documentary called Gulag Archipelago apparently has nothing directly to do with Solzhenitsyn's book. It is actually two documentaries, one having...
I imagine the focus of these is on the Katyn Massacre (that would be the shorter piece), liquidation of camps in Kozielsk, Ostaschkovo and Starobyelsk, and...
If you find such a version, please let me know. WorldCat indicates that there are no subtitles. I spoke to someone at polbook.com and they said that the video...
... If you mean Nilova pustyn' (Nil's hermitage), yes. There are about thirty monks there, but, since it is not only a spiritual center, but also a major ...
Hi, Kevin, In answer to your question, I think he is referring to a dream of a prisoner in "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Maybe you have the answer to this by...
I think that "cancer ward" is the type of book that can be easly transposed to a more contemporary hospital setting, whit the sole problem of having to think...
Perhaps an abridged version of _The Gulag Archipelago_ could be presented in the same way that HBO did _Band of Brothers._ I don't know if _Cancer Ward_ would...
May I ask for some help with two terms, the meanings of which I have been unable to ascertain. First is "osobist" or "osobiste". Best as I can infer from...
"Osoblogi" means "Special Camp," so I imagine that "Osoblogist" means either one who is imprisoned there, or one who is employed there, depending on how it is...
Hello, I believe that doctormidnight's response : "Osoblogi" means "Special Camp," so I imagine that "Osoblogist" means either one who is imprisoned there, or...
