Home » Film Categories

In Gulag 113, Toronto filmmaker Marcus Kolga and his 89-year-old grandfather, Eduard Kolga, retrace the latter's journey from his native Estonia to a logging camp near Kotlas and back again. The 46-minute film also includes archival footage and an interview with Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, whose latest book, Gulag: A History, won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 2004.
The story begins in 1939, when Soviet forces invaded and annexed Estonia, a Baltic Sea republic that had broken away from the Russian Empire during the Bolshevik Revolution. Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union two years later, the Soviet ...

Director: Marcus Kolga