A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
David Leland
as Nemov
Gabrielle Lloyd
as Lyuba
Richard Durden
as Khomich
Patrick Stewart
as Gurvich
Allan Surtees
as Brylov
Michael Poole
as Yakhimchuk
Barry Jackson
as Gai
John Kane
as Chegenyov
Barbara Hickmott
as Granya
Theresa Watson
as Shurochka
Alan Gerrard
as Kolodey
Terence Davies
as Kostya
