The film "Escape from the Ice"
Escape from the Ice
Production: USA
Year: 1982
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: John Savage, Willie Nelson, Francesca Annis, Ben Cross, Frank Windsor, Sylvia Kay, Peter Vaughan, John Malcolm, Bernice Stigers, and Steven Berkoff, among others...
Plot: A Detroit native, he came to the USSR at 16 to work on the construction of the Gorky Automobile Plant. During Stalin's purges, the young American's life took a dramatic turn: prison, a labor camp, and exile to the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Interesting Facts: This film is based on the autobiographical novel by Victor Herman, a Russian American who spent 18 years in the Gulag camps.