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Within the Whirlwind is a 2009 German film directed by Marleen Gorris and based on the autobiographical book Journey into the Whirlwind by Yevgenia Ginzburg. It stars Emily Watson and Pam Ferris. [1] Watson has described the film as "the most stretching thing I’ve done as a mature actress." [2]
An excellent film based on a true story. Great performance by the leading actors especially Emily Watson. Gripping story about the horrors of the Stalin purges. Rated 5/5 Stars •...
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- Emily Watson
- Marleen Gorris
- Drama, Biography
Based on Evgenia Ginzburg’s memoirs, “Within the Whirlwind” chronicles the high-ranking professor’s fall from grace during the Stalinist purges and her subsequent 10-year incarceration in Soviet...
This movie is based on Ms. Ginzburg's memoirs, "Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives", where she was banished for 12 years for allegedly participating in the Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary group, a group accused of conspiring against the Russian state by plotting the defeat of the then U.S.S.R. by capitalist countries, and murder their ...
Nov 5, 2009 · During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Within the Whirlwind is based on the true story of Evgenia Ginzburg, a Russian literature professor who was arrested on false charges during Stalin's reign of terror and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in a Siberian Gulag.
Within the Whirlwind is based on the true story of Evgenia Ginzburg, a Russian literature professor who was arrested on false charges during Stalin's reign of terror and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in a Siberian Gulag.
