The Ice Runner (DVD, 1992) Edward Albert, Olga Kabo, Victor Wong. Region Free

The Ice Runner DVD.

ICE RUNNER

The year was 1987, JEFF WEST (EDWARD ALBERT), a daring

adventurer, was sanctioned by the U.S. Government for covert and

highly sensitive operations in the Soviet Union. Until the day a slip-up

makes him an embarrassment to everyone.

Glasnost was sweeping the country and the two super powers scrambled to clean

house of their dirty deeds. The U.S. anxious to silence West, expose him to the K.G.B

After a harrowing chase he is captured and arrested on trumped up charges,

abandoned by his U.S. cronies....best forgotten. After a fixed trial, West disappears

without a trace into the bowels of Siberia,

Crossing the great expanse of this desolate land, West's train crashes. For the sake of survival - to avoid the dreaded gulag

for political dissidents - West assumes the identity of the dead petty thief he is manacled to.Thus begins a terrifying

masquerade under his new name, IVAN POPOVSKY.

His destiny diverted, West arrives at a minimum security forestry camp isolated by thousands of miles of foreboding

terrain. An impostor, he observes and learns the ways of other prisoners, guards and natives, Tutored at every angle by the

wise and mystical villager, FYODER (VICTOR WONG). West learns what it will take to escape and trains to run.

And he runs. Always he runs, testing his condition and endurance, waiting for the chance to claim his freedom.

The camp's highest ranking officer KOLYA (EUGENE LAZAREV), a fundamental relic from the most conservative, militaristic

Communist ideology, stalks this runner, confronting him at every opportunity. Finally with the hope of settling with determined

runner down, Koyla sends for LENA (OLGA KABO), the beautiful "wife" of the dead thief, Ivan Popusky.

From the very moment of Lena's arrival, West's life hangs in the balance as she has the power to expose him which will

mean certain death. What ensues is the strangest of all relationships blossoming from deceit and anxiety into a deep love

affair born out of mutual need and a longing for survival and freedom.

Their love and West's fate are soon threatened as the world experiences the most staggering event - the collapse of

Communism. First the rumor, then the word. From crackling radios and snowy TV sets, West soon finds out that all political

prisoners are being freed. Had he kept his real identity he would be on his way home, but he has assumed the lie at a

soviet criminal and must serve his time...seven more lost years in this wasteland.

West's need for freedom digs deeper in his soul. His eye stretches toward escape. But how? To where? In all of Siberia

there are only thousands of desolate miles. But when Kolya is reassigned to an outpost at the Bering Sea to serve the new

Republic, he takes West with him as a final perverse challenge. His life's work over, the only thing he has left is a

determination to break his final adversary - Jeffrey West.

There are only thirty-two miles that separate Russia and America at the Bering Strait and so begins this brutal game.

A determined runner might have a chance……. but will Kolya allow him that chance? Wounded and desperate. West makes his

final agonizing run, shielded by a herd of 3,000 reindeer, and triumphantly finds freedom in the arms of the woman he loves.

Sometimes the only possibility is to do the impossible.

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