"It's based on a true story." Or "It's truth, but stranger than fiction." Or even: "You couldn't make it up." When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves ...

Their correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin’s Gulag, unmediated and uncensored. Wisely, Figes lets his characters speak for themselves.

But in “real life,” these rough-looking men were from nice central European homes, as the presence of the girl reminds them. Rape would have been out of character. Advertisement ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...

Real-life Holocaust survivor: Cecilia Kovachova - who inspired the main character in new novel Cilka's Journey - is pictured with her husband Ivan after their release from a Soviet gulag ...

"Most people," Milan Kundera wrote in "The Joke," "deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redress (of deeds, mistakes ...

Life in a North Korean gulag: the musical. Reading Time: 2 minutes. Why you can trust SCMP. SCMP Reporter. Published: 12:00am, 13 Mar 2006. ... Named after a real-life prison camp, ...