Solovki (1929)

Solovki Special Purpose Camps

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: 1929-05-16
• Runtime: 1h 19min
• Production Company: Sovkino
• Production Country: Soviet Union
• Director: Aleksandr Cherkasov