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Escape from Recsk (Hungarian: Szökés, Polish: Ucieczka) 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's authentic escape from the closely guarded Recsk forced labor camp, where “enemies of the people” were imprisoned in the 1950s."

Notes

1. Not to be confused with a more recent Hungarian politician, Gyula Molnár.

Themes

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

References

1. Ucieczka | Film | 1996 (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via www.filmweb.pl.
2. Szökés (in Hungarian). 1997. Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via port.hu.
3. Kalmár, György (2017-09-18). Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema: Labyrinthian Men. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-63664-1.
4. 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)
5. Tiszatájonline (2023-02-25). "Michnay Gyula és Gérecz Attila szökésének filmkockái". Tiszatáj online - irodalom, művészet, kultúra (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-09-01.
6. 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.

External links

• Escape from Recsk at IMDb

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