This movie should be called "What comes after the next hill"

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2012)

This is my second review, and I just had to do it...
As I am from the Eastern part of Europe (and though a young man) I know of all the sufferings our people from that time, and this is partially a slight view what they had to deal with...
The first part (and for me the toughest) tells us what was it like to be a (mainly falsely) accused person in Siberia. By the way, most if the prisoners were driven there by trains, thousands of miles. And no, not in first class, not even tourist class wagons, but in cattle cars... And they had to travel all that way without any stops, being packed in small wagons dozens of them trying to stay alive... Many of them left their lives while the train kept moving...
And what was the life in Siberian prison camp, well, you will have just a glimpse of that in that movie, hopefully there will be another movie one day (hopefully from Russia, if they finally admit the manslaughter the CCCP = USSR did) to take that subject in further details...
But lets keep the politic s.. behind now
To go further, this movie has several layers, and the second biggest for me was, how darn big this world really is, one day you are in snowy wasteland and then you are in the desert (of course, actually it takes several months to go either ways). You just have to admire the world as it is and the scenery, which was brilliantly captured in this movie!
There are minor details you can complain about this movie (how can they be so fit after this whole journey etc) but all after all, this is a great picture of not only that time, but a great story to tell us and something to think about! Well at least it gave me some thought, as being one of the victims of Soviet terror... But still, what comes after the next hill?