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Released
1985 · FILM

Gulag

A cornered man is capable of anything

Directed by
Runtime
130 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess to spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a brutal prison camp in the remote regions of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must endure the inhuman conditions or attempt to engineer an escape.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John JympsonShot by Kelvin PikeScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Keith Wilson

Also known as

  • Gulag - Hölle ohne Wiederkehrde

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