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The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

The film takes place in the USSR in 1949. In the Marfino sharashka near Moscow, convict scientists are working on the order of Stalin himself - a secret telephony apparatus.

Thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only 'crime' was to get caught. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?