One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (film)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Directed by	Caspar Wrede
Produced by	Caspar Wrede
Screenplay by	Ronald Harwood
Based on	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Starring	Tom Courtenay Espen Skjønberg James Maxwell
Music by	Arne Nordheim
Cinematography	Sven Nykvist Hans Nord
Distributed by	Norsk Film A/S
Release date(s)	7 December 1970 (1970-12-07) (Sweden) 16 May 1971 (1971-05-16) (United States)
Running time	Germany: 105 min Norway: 104 min USA: 100 min
Country	UK / Norway
Language	English

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a joint Norwegian-British 1970 film based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the same name. The Norwegian title is En dag i Ivan Denisovitsj' liv.

Cast

• Tom Courtenay as Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
• Espen Skjønberg as Tiurin
• Alf Malland as Fetiukov
• Frimann Falck Clausen as Senka
• Jo Skønberg as Gopchik
• Odd Jan Sandsdalen as Eino
• Torstein Rustdal as Vaino
• James Maxwell as Captain
• Alfred Burke as Alyosha
• Eric Thompson as Tsetzar
• John Cording as Pavlo
• Matthew Guinness as Kilgas
• Roy Bjørnstad
• Paul Connell
• Sverre Hansen
• Wolfe Morris
• Kjell Stormoen
• Caspar Wrede

Banning in Finland

See also: Finlandization

Finnish film director Jörn Donner tried to get the film to Finland but Finnish Board of Film banned the showing of the film and Donner complained to Supreme Administrative Court of Finland in 1972. The Supreme Administrative Court voted for the banning 5-4 on 28 February 1972. In 1972 and 1974 Swedish television showed the film and the Swedish television mast on the Åland Islands was shut down during the movie because Finns were banned from seeing the film.

Director of the Finnish Board of Film Jerker Eeriksson said that the banning of the film was political because it harmed the Finnish-Soviet relationship. Director of the film Caspar Wrede who then lived in England didn't want to campaign against the banning in order to avoid bad publicity abroad.

The film was shown in Finland in 1993 and 1994 in movie theater Orion in Helsinki and in the cinema club in Vaasa. Finnish television showed the film in 1996 on the TV1 YLE channel.

External links

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at the Internet Movie Database
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at the Swedish Film Database
• Film trailer
• Donner: Solzhenitsyn oli räjähde: The interview of Jörn Donner about the prohibition of the film in Finland.