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Gulag | Escape
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7.3/10
IMDbFreedom of Expression Honorary Award | 2012 | Joni
Top Ten of the Year International Competition | 2012 | Peter
Top Ten of the Year Audience Award | 2012 | Peter
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Film | 2011 | Saoirse
Best Achievement in Makeup | 2011 | Greg
Feature Film Score of the Year | 2011 | Burkhard von
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film | 2011 | Colin
Young British Performer of the Year | 2011 | Saoirse
Best Feature Film Score | 2011 | Burkhard von
Budget 30,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 24,200,000 USD
This movie was inspired by the memoir of Slavomir Rawicz depicting his escape from a Siberian gulag and subsequent four thousand-mile walk to freedom in India. Incredibly popular, it sold over five hundred thousand copies, and is credited with inspiring many explorers. However, in 2006, the BBC unearthed records (including some written by Rawicz) that showed he had been released by the U.S.S.R. in 1942. In 2009, another former Polish soldier, Witold Glinski, claimed that the book was really an account of his own escape. However, this claim too has been seriously challenged.
When Janusz Weiszczek (Jim Sturgess) and the others spot the tattoo of Lenin and Stalin on Valka's (Colin Farrell's) chest, he angrily replies that they were great men. Such tattoos were in fact employed by criminals in the false hope that they wouldn't be shot there as it was supposed to be illegal to deface an image of either Lenin or Stalin. Although it is well-known that the executions were conducted via shooting in the back of the head.
The 53,820-square-foot Gulag Camp was built at Nu Boyana Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, and is still (as of 2015) maintained by the studio and available for filming.
Colin Farrell designed many of his character's tattoos.
When told he should be grateful, Valka says: "Gratitude is for dogs!" Stalin said a very similar thing: "Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."
"Valka: You say too many prayers for an innocent man."
"Mr. Smith: Kindness. That will kill you here."