Siberian Education
by Nicolai Lilinliterary work· published 2009
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Describes the author's extreme boyhood growing up in Transnistria, a contested, lawless region between Moldova and Ukraine, where authority is distrusted and tattoos tell the story of a man's life.
Adaptations (1)
Siberian Education was adapted into a 2013 film.
Siberian Education2013 · film · 110 min · dir. Gabriele Salvatores · IMDb ↗IMDb6.3The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
