[Daviscenter-list] **Tonight** Film and Discussion: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Film Series Presents a screening of: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Followed by a discussion with Josh Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA, expert on Soviet Affairs. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s is brought to the screen in this stark and spare adaptation by director Caspar Wrede, writer Ronald Harwood, and cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tom Courtenay is Ivan, who is a prisoner in the eighth year of a ten-year sentence at a Siberian labor camp. Ivan's day consists of small accomplishments that enable Ivan to retain his humanity during conditions of extreme oppression -- he does not get sick, he grabs an extra smoke, he discovers a saw, and he helps to work on a concrete wall. When he prepares for sleep, Ivan is contented that the guards have not beaten him and that he has gotten through the day in one piece. And tomorrow morning, Ivan must start all over again. Monday, November 6th 6:00 pm – Film and Discussion Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Building, 1st Floor * * * * * * * Events Calendar: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/events.shtml *Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public. The Carr Center is located at the JFK School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu