Product Details

• Actors: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, John McEnery, Nancy Paul
• Directors: Roger Young
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: HBO
• VHS Release Date: May 11, 1989
• Run Time: 130 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303425577
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,306 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gulag Greatness, August 10, 2001

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Eric V. Hansen (murray, utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gulag [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Luckily I have had this movie for quite a while. I watch it as often as I can. Michael Almon, an olympic athelete, is participating in the goodwill games in Moscow. He is conned into smuggling some secret doccuments to the west. He is then convicted as a spy and sentenced to a nation of Siberian prisons called the Gulag. By learning a magic trick there using a box and piece of paper, he learns how to escape this man made hell on Earth. After getting out, he and his companions must learn to face the tundra, the weather, and each other. This is a must-see movie. I wish they would re-release it. It shows just how much a man is capable of enduring when he has a dream he believes in.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gulag gets it right!, May 10, 2004

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L. Swickard (Blue Springs, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gulag [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I can't believe the reviewer from East Asia. Somehow he/she missed the point. The point was to depict what was going on in the Soviet Union at a time Soviet revisionists in the West were writing that the Soviet system was strong, viable, and was transforming into some sort of Euro-style socialist democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even the CIA missed the boat on what really was going on (read Walter Laquer's book on the fall of the Soviet Union). Without the character played by the American, there would have been no story. The movie was contrasting the spirit of American "can do" with Russian fatalism. I suspect the reviewer from East Asia has some affinity for either socialism or communism and this is his real objection to the moview. Great movie! (read the new Applebaum book on the Gulag system.....). Lavrentiy Larenchencko

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth watching!!!, August 27, 2003

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Yvonne P. Whalen "Alaskanana" (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gulag [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Saw this movie years ago and am now lucky enough to have one on the way. I think the actors portrayed a realistic version of a potentially deadly situation. It takes awhile for them to realize that their country isn't coming to their rescue and they must do it themselves. One of my favorite David Keith movies!!! (a movie loving grandma!).