Sentences with phrase «russian gulag»

(In Danish, English and Korean with subtitles) The Way Back (PG - 13 for violence, a nude image, depictions of physical hardships, and brief profanity) Fact - based bio-pic, based on Slavomir Rawicz's memoir chronicling his undertaking a grueling 4,500 mile trek from Siberia to India following an escape with a half - dozen fellow prisoners from a Russian gulag in the Forties.

However, he has other plans for them as he helps Constantine, the world's most dangerous frog, to escape prison, kidnap Kermit and throw him in a Russian gulag.

The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.

Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.

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Michael is operating under the behest of Irina (Kate Winslet), a nasty Russian mafia head who is desperate to secure the release of her husband from a gulag.

(He was indeed forced - marched by the Russians to a Siberian gulag but he didn't escape, he was amnestied.)

The story is that of a Pole wrongly accused of traitorous activities against the state and imprisoned by the Russians in one of their gulags in far eastern Siberia.