Solovki (1929)

Solovki Special Purpose Camps

• Documentary

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.

Release date

May 16, 1929

Runtime

1h 19m

Language

Russian

Director

Aleksandr Cherkasov

Status

Released