The Homecoming
An epic two-month train journey across Russia with one of the world's greatest writers, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as he returns home to Russia with his family after twenty years of enforced exile in America. Solzhenitsyn, the man who experienced and revealed to the world the full horror of the Soviet gulag, is recognised throughout Russia as 'the conscience of the nation'. But despite the triumphant and emotional homecoming, this is no easy ride for Solzhenitsyn, his wife and American sons. Instead, they abandon their refuge in America to find their trans-Siberian trip from Vladivostok to Moscow dogged by the KGB, the Russian Mafia, old-style communist bosses, the tragic plight of ordinary Russians and the echoes of its even more terrible past.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Released
- 1995
Details
Release year: 1995
Storyline
An epic two-month train journey across Russia with one of the world's greatest writers, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as he returns home to Russia with his family after twenty years of enforced exile in America. Solzhenitsyn, the man who experienced and revealed to the world the full horror of the Soviet gulag, is recognised throughout Russia as 'the conscience of the nation'. But despite the triumphant and emotional homecoming, this is no easy ride for Solzhenitsyn, his wife and American sons. Instead, they abandon their refuge in America to find their trans-Siberian trip from Vladivostok to Moscow dogged by the KGB, the Russian Mafia, old-style communist bosses, the tragic plight of ordinary Russians and the echoes of its even more terrible past.
Top credits
- Brian Cox — Self - Extracts read by
- Alan Ereira — Self - Narration
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Self
- John Tusa — Self - Introduction (Repeat Broadcast)