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August 2005 Hollywood meets the zeks On Marina Goldovskaya’s film about the real gulag, The Solovky Power: Evidence and Documents. Can anyone doubt that the next documentary blockbuster will be American Gulag: Inside Uncle Sam’s Camps, from Michael Moore? There must be a dozen scripts already circulating in Hollywood with similar titles, and now that Amnesty International has weighed in, surely it’s only a matter of time before a new example of creative filmmaking will be breaking attendance records nationwide. So let me suggest a way of dealing with the inevitable agonizing over Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. Get hold of a video of Marina Goldovskaya's film about the genuine article, The Solovky Power: Evidence and Documents, and sit your friends down for an in-depth look at the real, original, death-through-labor Soviet archetype, where something far worse than the occasional mistreatment of Korans occurred. This distinguished film will enable everyone to get their historical bearings; moreover, it is a standing rebuke to those who would rec ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 August 2005, on page 0 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/hollywood-meets-the-zeks-1347
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