“I haven’t found any reviews, so far, that hail this as Hollywood’s first Gulag movie, perhaps because hardly anyone noticed that there weren’t any before. Weir told me that many in Hollywood were surprised by the story: They’d never heard of Soviet concentration camps, only German ones.”
– Anne Applebaum in Slate, the author of Gulag, and an advisor to the new film, The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir.
Still waiting to see Total Eclipse on the Big Screen, though.
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Well, there was “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch”, but the credits sure don’t look like Hollywood.
But I bet every one of them knows all about the Japanese internment camps in the US during WWII.
They’d never heard of Soviet concentration camps? Who the hell did they think Solzhenitsyn was, Oprah’s first weight-loss coach?
John Savage, 1982, “Coming Out of the Ice”
… or (Red) Chinese, or North Vietnamese, or Cuban, or North Korean, or (Saddam-era) Iraqi …
Nah, just “right wing propaganda”.
One quibble with the Reason article — The Killing Fields gave the Khmer Rouge the(ir only) Schindler’s List treatment.
And Hollywood did recognize a Soviet WWII atrocity — Katyn received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film in 2008.
That’s about it, though. Pretty slim cinematic pickings for the 20th Century’s most murderous ideology.