Escape from Recsk
| Escape from Recsk | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lívia Gyarmathy |
| Starring | Daniel Olbrychski Artur Żmijewski |
Release date |
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Running time | 1h 35min |
| Countries | Hungary Poland Germany |
| Languages | Hungarian Polish |
Escape from Recsk (Hungarian: Szökés, Polish: Ucieczka) is a 1997 Hungarian-Polish-German drama film directed by Lívia Gyarmathy.[1][2][3]
Premise
[edit]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's[n 1] authentic escape from the closely guarded Recsk forced labor camp, where “enemies of the people” were imprisoned in the 1950s."[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Not to be confused with a more recent Hungarian politician, Gyula Molnár.
Themes
[edit]The film was noted for its documented description of the life in the camp of Recsk.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Ucieczka | Film | 1996 (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via www.filmweb.pl.
- ^ Szökés (in Hungarian). 1997. Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via port.hu.
- ^ Kalmár, György (2017-09-18). Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema: Labyrinthian Men. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-63664-1.
- ^ Krakowka, web3zero pl / dev: Kamil Słowiena, Jarosław. "27. Kino na Granicy / 27. Kino na Hranici". kinonagranicy.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-09-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Tiszatájonline (2023-02-25). "Michnay Gyula és Gérecz Attila szökésének filmkockái". Tiszatáj online - irodalom, művészet, kultúra (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Segel, Harold B. (2012-11-11). The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945–1990. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7802-2.
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