Within the Whirlwind
2009, Film, 90 min, Biography, Drama, English, Germany, MoviePedia score 60
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.
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Cast
- Emily Watson as Evgenia Ginzburg
- Ulrich Tukur as Dr. Anton Walter
- Ian Hart as Beylin
- Benjamin Sadler as Pavel Aksyonov
- Ben Miller as Krasny
- Jimmy Yuill as Siderov
- Pearce Quigley as Yelvov
- Monica Dolan as Pitkovskaya
- Pam Ferris as Genia's mother
- Agata Buzek as Lena
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