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...film as its didactic purpose (it was filmed in Zambia, where the ANC has its headquarters), and it certainly fleshes out the sometimes monotonous prison scenes. Not that the viewer ever feels the film is an adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; it's never dull. But it does sparkle more when it's scrutinizing the Roth family than when it's ridiculing the Afrikaner police inspector...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These two short novels by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch concern outsiders in post-Stalin society: an earnest young man who believes Lenin to the letter, and an ancient, impoverished peasant woman...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
...creativity that does not necessarily conform to the dictates of socialist realism. Their efforts have been occasionally successful, but the Party's policies towards literature continue to be dominated by political considerations. When Premier Khrushchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for intellectual freedom engendered by the publication was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily quashed the dissident voices...