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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a joint Norwegian-British 1970 film based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the same name.

The Norwegian title is En dag i Ivan Denisovitsj' liv.

Cast

• Tom Courtenay .... Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
• Espen Skjønberg .... Tiurin
• Alf Malland .... Fetiukov
• Frimann Falck Clausen .... Senka
• Jo Skønberg .... Gopchik
• Odd Jan Sandsdalen .... Eino
• Torstein Rustdal .... Vaino
• James Maxwell .... Captain
• Alfred Burke .... Alyosha
• Eric Thompson .... Tsetzar
• John Cording .... Pavlo
• Matthew Guinness .... Kilgas
• Roy Bjørnstad
• Paul Connell
• Sverre Hansen
• Wolfe Morris
• Kjell Stormoen
• Caspar Wrede

Banning in Finland

Finnish film director Jörn Donner tried to get the film to Finland but Finnish Board of Film banned the showing the film and Donner complained to Supreme Administrative Court of Finland in 1972.Supreme Administrative Court voted for the banning 5-4 in February 28 1972. In 1972 and 1974 Swedish television showed the film and Swedish television mast in Ahvenanmaa was shut down during the movie because banning Finns to see the film.

Director of the Finnish Board of Film Jerker Eeriksson said that the banning of the film was political because it harmed the Finnish-Soviet relasionship. Director of the film Caspar Wrede who then lived in England didn't want to campaing against the banning because a awoiding and bad publicity in aboard.

The film was shown in Finland in 1993 and 1994 in movie theater Orion in Helsinki and in cinema club in Vaasa. Finnish television showed the film in 1996 in TV1 YLE chanal.

External links

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at the Internet Movie Database
• Рекламный трейлер фильма
• Donner: Solzhenitsyn oli räjähde: The interview of Jörn Donner about the prohibition of the film in Finland.