Magadan - City Built On Bones (doc. film with eng. subs)

"The city of Magadan is located in northeastern Siberia, and is the gateway to the Kolyma region, a gold-rich area where the inhuman labor camps of the Gulag system were concentrated under Lenin and Stalin It is an anonymous cemetery made of asphalt, and the movie is about survivors and their descendants telling of the brutal atrocities.When the Gulag ended, prisoners and guards often lived side by side in what today numbers 95,000 City, separated and linked by the memory of the dark period of repression, but the political and social freedom that took possession of Russia in the 1990s is on the decline, in discussions with young Russians, the director meets a generation that supports the authoritarian regime of Putin, a new worship of Stalin is spreading and with it a new look."

2016 "Magadan - city built on bones"
Documentary
77:00 minutes
2K, Dolby Digital 5.1, DCP
Color & black and white
A production by the ifs, international film school cologne

Book & Director: Christian Zipfel
Producer: Nikolaas Meinshausen
Camera: Björn Weber
Co-director: Roman Moshenskiy
Cut: Maren Unterburger
Music: Christian Dellacher
Shooting location: Magadan [Kolyma, Siberia]

Language: Russian
Subtitles: German, English