Ashes in the Snow
We live here in a different and moving drama through a girl trying to reach her ambition in art. This historical drama began in 1941, when an ambitious 16-year-old artist and her family were deported to Siberia, and that move would change history within the Baltic Sea. Perhaps this girl's passion will turn history towards another turning point and perhaps her dream will come true.
14 August 1971, Keminmaa, Finland
8 May 1965, Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
7 July 1983, Uddevalla, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
29 March 1972, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
5 May 1972, Lithuania
23 September 1979, Oslo, Norway
May 31, 1994 in Vilnius, Lithuania
April 13, 1954
7 March 1992, London, England, UK
15 May 1990, Sussex, England, UK
January 03, 2019
Simplistic dialogue threatens to sink a drama with expansive cinematography, taking place in a pair of Soviet gulags and filmed in Lithuania.
January 11, 2019
The script and direction ... [are] dealing with actual historical atrocities and tragedies, and distilling them into another resilience-of-the-human-spirit bromide.
January 22, 2019
In a tale that is at once overexplained and undercooked, there's almost no trace of recognizable humanity. So even when we are shown truly disturbing images, we are so far removed from them that they are stripped of any real emotive weight.
October 22, 2018
A big, bold, and beautiful story that is equally matched with breathtaking cinematography and a haunting score.
January 16, 2019
True-to-book WWII adaptation is violent, sad, emotional.
January 11, 2019
Filmmakers never seem to run out of footnotes to history during World War II. This one is better served in the pages of a novel. It doesn't work on film.
January 10, 2019
Markevicius and Jones find meaning in the small moments of humanity within the horrors of war - those times when the oppressed and even the oppressors get a chance, just for a little while, to be people.
January 11, 2019
Ashes in the Snow is a good, yet unsatisfying movie with the potential to have been so much better.
October 06, 2018
The film is heartfelt and often powerful but sometimes too sluggish to carry maximum impact.
January 10, 2019
Sometimes only a fine line separates tragic sweep from a movie that never comes to life as anything other than actors dressed in costumes, straining to inhabit an alien chapter of history.

