Escape from Recsk

Escape from Recsk (Hungarian: Szökés, Polish: Ucieczka) is a 1997 Hungarian-Polish-German drama film directed by Lívia Gyarmathy.^[1][2][3]

Escape from Recsk
Directed by	Lívia Gyarmathy
Starring	Daniel Olbrychski Artur Żmijewski
Release date	13 February 1997 (1997-02-13)
Running time	1h 35min
Countries	Hungary Poland Germany
Languages	Hungarian Polish

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^{[n 1]} authentic escape from the closely guarded Recsk forced labor camp, where “enemies of the people” were imprisoned in the 1950s."^[4]

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.^[5][6]