Within the Whirlwind

  • Emily Watson: Eugenia Ginzburg
  • Ulrich Tukur: Anton Walter
  • Ian Hart: Beylin
  • Benjamin Sadler Pavel
  • Agata Buzek: Lena
  • Lena Stolze: Greta
  • Pam Ferris: Genia's mother
  • Ben Miller: Krasny
  • Monica Dolan: Pitkowskaya
  • Jimmy Yuill: Siderov
  • Pearce Quigley: Yelvov
  • Zbigniew Zamachowski: Guard
  • Heinz Lieven: Old Vlady
  • Krzysztof Globisz: Timoszkin
  • Nick Dong -Sik: Confucius
  • Magdalena Górska: Magda
  • Lukasz Garlicki Piotr
  • Maria Seweryn: Zimmermann
  • Martin Kaps: Local Comrade

Within the Whirlwind ( original title Within the Whirlwind ) is an internationally -produced biopic from 2009, which came into Germany until May 5, 2011 in the cinemas. The film adaptation based on the autobiography of the Soviet journalist, journalist and university teacher Yevgenia Ginzburg Semyonovna.

Action

The Soviet literature professor Eugenia Ginzburg at the University of Kazan is condemned in the wake of the Great Purge mistaken for anti-Soviet agitation to ten years hard labor in a Siberian labor camp.

In the camp they veliebt in the German camp physician Anton Walter.

Background

The screenplay is based on Ginsburg's memories of life in the Gulag: Krutoj maršrut (literally: Hard -route ) in German in two parts under the titles of approach and a life balancing act appeared.

Reception

" At the labor camp Marleen Gorris fails ' approach final; not only when the German - Russian camp doctor falls in love with the professor. Without Ulrich Tukurs ability to ground dramatically lost figures, things would have been even worse, but the worst case in the description of the worst occurs. Bearing remains Masked "

" The staging seems too wooden and cold to convey these credible in their rapprochement with the horrors. Instead, it relies on the power of the recited in the film literature, with late achieves a poetic compression. "

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