"During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life."
Emily Watson
as Evgenia Ginzburg
Ulrich Tukur
as Dr. Anton Walter
Ian Hart
as Beylin
Benjamin Sadler
as Pavel
Ben Miller
as Krasny
Jimmy Yuill
as Siderov
Pearce Quigley
as Yelvov
Monica Dolan
as Pitkowskaya
Pam Ferris
as Genia's mother
Agata Buzek
as Lena
Lena Stolze
as Greta
Torsten Münchow
as
Heinz Lieven
as Old Vlady
Dirk Moritz
as Man in Hospital
Nick Dong-Sik
as Confucius
Maria Mamona
Beata Fudalej
Maria Seweryn
Bogusława Schubert
Magdalena Górska
Magdalena Gnatowska
Barbara Jonak
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Radosław Krzyżowski
Dagmar von Kurmin
Ksawery Szlenkier
Agnieszka Sienkiewicz
Norbert Rakowski
Krzysztof Globisz
Katarzyna Bargiełowska
Eugenia Ginzburg
Writer
Christine Ruppert
Producer
Nancy Larson
Marleen Gorris
Director
Włodzimierz Pawlik
Music
Olivier Poujaud
Visual Effects Supervisor
Kelly Valentine Hendry
Casting Associate
Jagna Janicka
Costume Design
Dominik Schmitz
Assistant Art Director
Gert Janssen
Supervising Sound Editor
Weronika Migoń
Casting
Volker Lorig
Special Effects Supervisor
Benoît Biral
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Susanne Woerle-Jiritano
Makeup Department Head
Gail Stevens
Karolina Sawicka
Celio Castro
Gaffer
Irene Piel
Art Direction
Katarzyna Lewińska
Valérie Le Docte
Dialogue Editor
Sabine Schwedhelm
Ewa Skoczkowska
Production Design
Artur Bartos
Special Effects
Piotr Mularuk
Sławomir Jóźwik
Executive Producer
Stefan Rüll
Priscilla Cohen
Hubert Toint
Adrian Politowski
Jean-Jacques Neira
Helga Binder
Vincent Macheras
Jeremy Burdek
Magdalena Napieracz
Nadia Khamlichi
Arkadiusz Tomiak
Director of Photography