recsk 1950 1953

This European Film Award winner documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungarys most notorious political prison camp, which operated between 195053. During the early 1950s the very existence of this camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of Hungarian communist regimes deepest secrets. Hundreds of people were taken there without ever actually being sentenced by any court, and had to suffer through the brutal treatment handed down by their sadistic captors. This documentary tells the story of Recsk from both the captors and the prisoners point of view, capturing the atmosphere of paranoia, humiliation and degradation that prevailed throughout the Stalinist gulag system.

(1989, documentary, colour, black & white, 220 min)

script, directed by Lívia Gyarmathy, Géza Böszörményi
d.o.p: Ferenc Pap
producer: István Dárday

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary

[chickenwretch]

This is a fantastic documentary, can't understand the lack of interest or even awareness, of this wretched work/torture camp. Too bad these f*^%#$ communist pigdogs weren't ever brought up on charges. There's an entire "ism" still alive, protected, and embraced that has got away with genocide, theft, torture, deportations, ecocide, generational demoralization, and historical lies; communism. This guys father could have been you or I, average law-abiding working people disagreeing with gangsters.

[PARADOXx13x]

My Dad spent 3+ years in this Damned place. (Apam volt 3+ evig itt)