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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a British film of genre Drama directed by Casper Wrede with Tom Courtenay
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
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Add to a movie listOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a joint Norwegian-British film, based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the same name and released in 1970. The Norwegian title is En dag i Ivan Denisovitsj' liv. The movie stars Tom Courtenay as the title character, a prisoner in the Soviet gulag system of the 1950s who endures
a long prison sentence. It tells of one routine day in his life.
Actors
Tom Courtenay
(Ivan Denisovich)
Espen Skjønberg
(Tiurin)
James Maxwell
(Captain)
Alf Malland
(Fetiukov)
Alfred Burke
(Alyosha)
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