Recsk 1950–53: Story of a Forced Labor Camp (1987)

3h 50m
Running Time

November 30, 1987
Release Date

Recsk 1950–53: Story of a Forced Labor Camp (1987)

3h 50m
Running Time

November 30, 1987
Release Date

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This European Film Award winner documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungary's most notorious political prison camp, which operated between 1950 and 1953. During the early 1950's the very existence of this camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of the Hungarian communist regime's 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.

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Release Date
November 30, 1987

Original Name
Recsk 1950-1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története

Status
Released

Running Time
3h 50m

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Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary, Hungarian: Recsk 1950-1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története, - 1988 Hungarian documentary film directed by Lívia Gyarmathy and her husband Géza Böszörményi. Documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungary's most notorious political prison camp, the Recsk forced labor camp, which operated between 1950 and 1953. During the early 1950s the very existence of this camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of the Hungarian communist regime's deepest secrets.

This was the first Hungarian documentary about the political prison camps of the 1950s in Hungary, and helped prepare the ground for the so-called "system change", the end of socialism in Hungary. In the movie, director Lívia Gyarmathy interviews both old guards and prisoners of Recsk. The idea for the movie came from Géza Böszörményi, who himself was imprisoned in Recsk.

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