Women of the Gulag

The film Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.
The Gulag was first captured by Solzhenitsyn in his opus, Gulag Archipelago.

Never before have the stories of women and women’s experience in these camp been told in an international documentary film. The film explores the survivors’ memories of the conditions of life before Stalin’s terror, life within the camps and their reintegration back into civil society, and sheds light on the personal and historical significance of the Gulag system in Russia.