Escape from Recsk


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's authentic escape from the closely guarded Recsk forced labor camp, where “enemies of the people” were imprisoned in the 1950s."

Themes

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