Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012)

Name: Camp 14: Total Control Zone
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-11-08

1h 44m

Running Time

Plot.

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

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Cast & Crew.

August Diehl

Shin Dong-Hyuk

Marc Wiese

Director

Axel Engstfeld

Producer

Jörg Adams

Cinematographer

Jean-Marc Lesguillons

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
November 8, 2012

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 44m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-09-29

This Movie Is About.

concentration camp

trauma

torture

north korea

Wiki.

Camp 14: Total Control Zone is a 2012 German/South Korean documentary film directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese. It features interviews with Shin Dong-hyuk who was born and grew up in the Kaechon internment camp (known as "Camp 14") in North Korea. Through interviews and animated sequences, the film details human rights abuses that were inflicted on him and witnessed by him as prisoner there, including the public execution of his mother and brother. Also interviewed in the film are a former commander of the guards at Camp 22 and an ex-secret policeman, both of whom admit to committing various crimes including torture, rape and murder.

In 2015, Shin changed some parts of his story, including saying that he did not spend all his time in Camp 14.