“The Homecoming” chronicles an epic, two-months train journey across Russia with one of the most world´s greatest writers, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, as he returns home with his family after 20 years of enforced exile in America. Solzhenitsyn, the man who experienced and revealed to the world the full horror of the Soviet Gulag, is recognised throughout Russia as “the conscience of the nation.” But despite the triumphant and emotional homecoming, this is no easy ride for the Nobel prize-winning writer, his wife and American sons. Instead they abandon their refuge in Vermont to find their trans-Siberian trip from Vladivostok to Moscow dogged by the KGB, the Russian mafia, old-style communist bosses, the tragic plight of ordinary Russians today, and the echoes of its even more terrible past.
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