The film Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal
system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin. The Gulag was first captured by
Solzhenitsyn in his opus, Gulag Archipelago. Never before the stories of women and women’s experience in these camp was told in
an international documentary film.
A collection of unique and candid interviews with women who survived the Stalin’s repression of the 1930s.
MARIANNA YAROVSKAYA’S Undesirables won a Student Academy Award in 2001. Since then, she has
worked for dozens of programs for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, Greenpeace, Animal Planet as producer and senior editor. She also worked on two Academy Award-winning features and one Academy nominated film as a researcher, and directed an award winning film, Holy Warriors. Producers Guild of America (PGA) member.
Yarovskaya is the second Russian female director to be shortlisted for an Academy Award in any category in 91 years. If the film wins,
it will be the second Russian-directed documentary in the history of Oscars: one other Russian documentary film actually won an
Academy Award – in 1943, a film about WWII.
Women of the Gulag, first female director from Russian Federation shortlisted for the Oscars.