A launch of a new documentary about a prisoner of Soviet camps “Viktor Bulgakov. Songs of a Forgotten Mine” will take place in Yabloko
Press Release, 13.02.2024
Viktor Bulgakov was arrested on 5 March, 1953. The seventeen-year-old student of the journalism department of Moscow State University, who wrote poetry and played music, was accused of creating a terrorist organisation. If Bulgakov had been eighteen, he would have been shot, but as it was, he was given 25 years of camps and sent to a camp in the Far North in Inta. The mine became the Moscow boy’s new home, and the miner’s code of honour, to which Viktor Bulgakov remained devoted all his life, became his new rules of life.
The film “Songs of a Forgotten Mine” is an attempt to answer the question of how to live in Russia and not to lose one’s personality, despite the most difficult circumstances.
Film directors: Grigory Grishin and Olga Yakovleva. The film was shot in 2022-2024.
The film will be launched in the office of the Yabloko party (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31, building 2) on 20 February at 19:00. After the screening, the main character of the film, Viktor Bulgakov, together with its creators, will answer questions from viewers.
Registration for the event is here: https://party-yabloko.timepad.ru/event/3238951/
Posted: February 13th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.