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In 1950, just two years after the ascension of the Hungarian communists to power, a prison camp was set up to intern political dissidents - including independent labor leaders, socialists and even communists who questioned the party's Stalinist mold. Torture, beatings, psychological and physical humiliation were routine events - not to mention the suffering caused by lack of proper heating, poor nutrition and disease. Then, in 1953, the camp was abruptly closed; those who survived were sent back to their former lives, and the very existence of the camp at Recsk become one of the regime's darkest secrets, the epitome of the arbitrary, brutal power against which Hungarians would soon revolt.
Thirty years later, filmmakers Géza Böszörményi (who had been interned at Recsk) and Lívia Gyarmathy interviewed as many 'veterans' of Recsk as they could find - not only prisoners, but also guards and even the officials responsible for sending people there. The result was this extraordinary work, a richly, terrifyingly detailed portrait of a prison camp that mirrored the contemporary tensions and divisions in Hungarian life and politics. Winner of the European Film Award for Best Documentary (1989).
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