During our expeditions, we shoot documentary films, which we show in cinemas or during debates in the Czech Republic and abroad. Czech TV bought some of them. We also shoot short films related to the topic of persecuted Czechs in the USSR or the persecution of our Russian partners from the Memorial association. Most of our films can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
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Buried Hopes (2025)
The horrors of the past, the lives lost, the remains of uranium mines and labour camps. Time is slowly washing away the forgotten history in Kyrgyzstan, and the growing influence of Russia hinders efforts at studying it. Among the victims of Soviet repression there were also many Czechoslovakians. An expedition of the Gulag.cz organisation set out to visit the sites of this turbulent history in August 2024 on the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the founding of the "Interhelpo" cooperative by our compatriots in Kyrgyzstan.
The film will premiere on April 24, 2025 in Prague's Cinema Aero and on April 28 in DK Poklad in Ostrava.
Details about the film can be found HERE.
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Steppe and frost (2024)
Freezing weather and the endless Kazakh plains - the extreme conditions that the prisoners and victims of the Gulag had to endure became the backdrops of a documentary film from the Gulag.cz expedition to Kazakhstan.
The entire film can be viewed on our YouTube channel
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Guardians of Memory (2022)
A documentary about our partners from the Russian Memorial society, the history of its liquidation and the extremely difficult situation in which its employees found themselves after the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine. Many of them were forced to leave Russia, some ended up in the Czech Republic.
More details about the documentary are HERE
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A Journey to the Gulag (2019)
Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners have suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you have to walk miles in their shoes. This film follows the Gulag.cz team and their third expedition to the remains of an abandoned railway and Gulags in Northern Siberia, where data for virtual museum and virtual reality experience were gathered.
More details about the documentary are HERE
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Czechs and the Great Terror (2021)
Executions, deportations to Siberia, cruel torture, slave labor in Gulag camps. Such was the reverse face of Soviet reality throughout the period of Stalin's reign of terror. There were millions of victims. And among them thousands of Czechs. In the documentary series "Czechs and the Great Terror", we brought up five hitherto unknown fates in the form of short films and detailed articles, which we managed to uncover thanks to our research.
You can find the entire documentary cycle HERE
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Expedition Karwiná (2021)
One newly located camp for Soviet prisoners and a thorough documenting of the remains of three other Nazi camps from the Second World War - this is the result of our short research in Karviná (Czech Silesia). The impetus for our expedition was a meeting with the writer Karin Lednicka, who drew attention to the illegal felling of trees and the destruction of the remains of buildings at the site of the former camp for Italian prisoners of war.
Details about the film and our research can be found HERE
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Reports from expeditions to the Dead Road (2012 - 2015)
We prepared four video-reports from our expeditions to the remains of gulags along the never-completed railway in northern Siberia for the Czech TV. The first part "Jamal: Journey to the North of Russia along the Stalinist railway" is from the 2011 winter expedition, the other three parts - "Siberia: Along the Yenisei by Czechoslovak steamer", "Turukhansk, Stalin's pantheon, abandoned gulag" and "Dead road - abandoned Stalin's railway" are the result of the 2013 expedition.
