The Impossible Escape
2007, 5 minutes
True Story of a 1940 escape from Siberia
Sentenced to death for de-railing Soviet supply trains, Jan's punishment is commuted at the last moment to life in a Siberian Gulag and he experiences one the most brutal regimes the world has ever known. 84 men escape into the arctic tundra, facing almost certain death in the Arctic wasteland of Siberia. Only 7 will make it across the Bering Straits. This is a true story of courage, sacrifice and endurance