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"Freedom is Paradise"
1989
Directed by Sergei Bodrov

Winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the Montreal International Film Festival and the "Wolfgang Staudte Award" at the Berlin International Film Festival.  13-year-old Sasha finds himself the unwilling resident of a grim reform school after the death of his mother.  He sets off on a 1,000 mile odyssey to a gulag-style high security prison, seeking the father he has never met. Russian with English subtitles.
75 minutes.