Ashes in the Snow is a World War II drama film based on The New York Times best selling novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.

The film is a coming-of-age tale of a young teenager named Lina who, with her mother and younger brother, was deported from her native Lithuania to a Soviet gulag amid Stalin's occupation of the Baltic region during World War II.

[2][3] Ashes in the Snow stars Aistė Diržiūtė, Bel Powley, Martin Wallström, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Jonah Hauer-King, Peter Franzén and Sophie Cookson.

One night, Lina along with her mother Elena, younger brother Jonas and friend Andrius are rounded up by the NKVD and deported by train to a gulag in the Altaysky region in Siberia.

One of their fellow passengers, a young mother named Ona with an infant, is driven to despair by the death of her daughter, causing her to commit suicide by provoking her captors into shooting her.

[5] On 3 February 2016, it was announced that Martin Wallström had been cast as the movie's male lead, playing a Soviet officer taunted for being Ukrainian, who befriends the young girl and her mother.

[2] Norwegian actress Lisa Loven Kongsli was cast as Lina's mother Elena Vilkas, James Cosmo as Mr. Stalas, and Peter Franzén as General Komarov.

It was announced that a cover of the Bob Dylan song "Ring Them Bells", performed by Lithuanian singer Gjan, would appear in the end titles of "Ashes in the Snow".

[16] Rex Reed of The Observer called the movie "[a]nother dreary Holocaust drama with no regard for narrative trajectory and an overwhelming lack of verbal coherence.