TRW Faith in the Camp ENPRO

Genre: Thematic Short Film
Format: PAL/SECAM, DV-Cam, DV-AVI
Runtime: 3:09 min
Languages: RU (orig.), EN
Series: "Eye Witnesses"

Topic: Among the victims of the Soviet repressions, there were many clergy members, and there was a certain logic to this: the moral boundaries set forth by religious commandments hindered the atheistic regime. Here we can listen to the living testimony from those who suffered for their faith in Soviet camps and prisons.

Plot: Our witnesses testify about the cruel and inhuman system of repression the state used against those who kept holding on their faith. When they refused to repudiate God, they were put into prison. Often the only way to survive the hardships of the camps and prisons was this faith which brought them there in the first place. And it helped them to survive with dignity and without renouncing to the human values Christian faith inspires in man. But all this had to be kept in secret, under the constant threat to be sentenced to death or more prison.

The Series: Memories, if not captured on film, become more and more blurred over the years. That's why we took advantage of the occasion to interview those who really experienced the horrors of the Soviet regime either on their own skin or through experiences made by their relatives. About 50 hours of material of these "Children of the Gulag" are available in our archive for further development, and just a very small part is presented in this series. We deliberately abstained from any comment on what is said by the witnesses in order to let the spectator decide. These short films may be useful as support material in talk-shows or educational programs. Other themes may be developed in future.

Other short films of the series:

• A Glimpse of Happiness
• Born in Prison
• Citizens and Spies
• Feast Days
• Human Relations
• Life in the Camps
• Persecuted Church
• Soviet Childhood
• Soviet Life
• The Man and the System
• Unjust Justice