''Escape from Recsk'' (, ) is a 1997 Hungarian-Polish-German drama film directed by Lívia Gyarmathy.

Premise

The Polish website kinonagranicy describes the film as follows, "Created in a wave of reckoning with the Stalinist past, the film tells the story of Gyuly Molnár'sNot to be confused with a more recent Hungarian politician,

Gyula Molnár Gyula Molnár (born 17 August 1961) is a Hungarian politician who was the leader of the Hungarian Socialist Party between 2016 and 2018. He was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2010 and from 2018 to 2022, and also served as Mayor of Újbuda ...

. authentic escape from the closely guarded

Recsk forced labor camp Recsk forced labor camp was a Forced-labor camp, forced labor camp in the communist era in Hungary operated by the State Protection Authority (ÁVH) between October 1950 and the fall of 1953, near the quarry of the Csákány-kő hill, next to the ...

, where “enemies of the people” were imprisoned in the 1950s."

Notes

Themes

The film was noted for its documented description of the life in the camp of Recsk.

References

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* 1997 drama films 1997 films Hungarian drama films Polish drama films German drama films 1990s German films {{1990s-drama-film-stub