Coming Out of the Ice

{{Short description|1982 television film directed by Waris Hussein}}

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| genre = Biography
Drama

| based_on = {{Based on|Coming Out of the Ice|Victor Herman}}

| teleplay = Alan Sharp

| director = Waris Hussein

| starring = John Savage
Willie Nelson
Francesca Annis
Ben Cross

| music = Maurice Jarre

| country = United States

| language = English

| executive_producer = Frank Konigsberg

| producer = Christopher Pearce

| editor = Malcolm Cooke

| cinematography = Richard H. Kline

| runtime = 1hr. 44 minutes

| company = EMI Films

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| network = CBS

| released = {{Start date|1982|05|23}}

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Coming Out of the Ice is a 1982 American made-for-television biographical film of Victor Herman.{{cite news |title=The Life of an American in Siberia |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=May 23, 1982 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/10516/Coming-Out-of-the-Ice/overview |title=Coming Out of the Ice (1982) |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140727011545/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/10516/Coming-Out-of-the-Ice/overview |archive-date=2014-07-27 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |first=Hal |last=Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |url-status=dead}} It is based upon Herman's 1979 autobiography, Coming Out of the Ice, about his decades of imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag system.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/05/22/a-different-kind-of-coming-out/3797d3c1-29ab-4bb0-a566-16f85b07a9cf/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Leslie |last=Berger |title=A Different Kind of Coming Out |date=May 22, 1982 }}