Product Details

• Actors: John Savage, Willie Nelson, Francesca Annis, Ben Cross, Frank Windsor
• Directors: Waris Hussein
• Writers: Alan Sharp, Victor Herman
• Producers: Christopher Pearce, Frank Konigsberg
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Studio: United American Video
• VHS Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000F0JO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,601 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read The Book Instead, April 21, 2002

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Larry Musa - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coming Out of the Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The book is an incredible story of the atrocities and hardships that Victor Herman overcame in the gulags of Siberia...and if you can find a copy, it is highly recommended.

The movie is not faithful to the book. I would say maybe 50% of the scenes follow the book, but are so "watered down" (it is rated PG, but Herman's experience was much more horrible than could be captured in a PG movie) as to give a wrong impression and even to trivialize what Herman accomplished in just surviving the gulags. The other 50% of the scenes are just additions by the script writer and not in the book...The acting is, however, good.

It will be up to somebody like Spielberg to capture the book for the big screen...it would then hopefully be like "Schindler's List", but instead for the millions that Stalin exterminated in the Siberian gulags...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Willie Nelson movie, July 29, 2010

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Richard A. Wintercorn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coming Out of the Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The movie, "Coming Out of the Ice" was very good. The quality of this old VHS tape was outstanding and the delivery was very quick. A good experience with a company that wants to do well.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Coming Out of the Ice the movie, November 13, 2009

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Becky Kay "Becky" (Edmond, Ok USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coming Out of the Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a good movie.
It does give you an idea of what this man endured as written in his book. I do wish it started out as the book did more in the part about how he and his wife were in the dugout with their daughter telling her stories to keep her warm. That part of the book really helps you to know Victor Herman. It really makes you understand more what he went through. The movie is a real eye opener.
You MUST read the book too!