Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman, This astonishing true story is the tale of a young American man who was sent to the Soviet Union with his parents by the Ford Motor...(922)

This astonishing true story is the tale of a young American man who was sent to the Soviet Union with his parents by the Ford Motor Company to set up an auto plant. He was eventually thrown into Soviet prisons and could not return to America until forty-five years later. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he met and fell in love with a beautiful Russian gymnast who followed him into exile and lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia, in a caved chopped out under the ice. Theirs is the compelling story of a romance destined to thrive under even the most desperate conditions. It was 1938 when Victor Herman was inexplicably thrown into prison, after he had become a celebrity in the Soviet Union, having won acclaim as "the Lindbergh of Russia" for his flying and world-record-breaking parachute jumps. But what happened to him was a common nightmare during the Stalin years: those who survived imprisonment and torture were sent north to hard labor in the icy forests an

Главный герой фильма, американец, провел 38 лет в советских лагерях только за то, что не захотел отречься от американского гражданства. Он отсидел несколько лет в тюрьме, затем был выселен в отдаленную северную деревню, где жизнь, конечно, была не из легких. Но, в конце концов, благодаря "новому мышлению", он был-таки отпущен в свою родную Америку.