Solovki

Solovki

#Solovki Special Purpose Camps


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1h 19m 1929 HD

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.


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