Camp 14: Total Control Zone
(100 min) Germany/North Korea
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Saturday 10/19, 6:30 PM (Session 8)

Director: Marc Wiese
Producer: Axel Engstfeld

Description:

Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-Hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was punishment, torture and abuse beyond imagination. After more than two decades of imprisonment, Shin escaped from the camp in 2005. Documentary Camp 14: Total Control Zone is both a powerful story of survival and an evocative character study, showing the feelings of guilt, anger, remorse and complicity that are shared between both abused and abusers. North Korea operates a network of political prison camps known as gwa-li-so, a word that strikes fear in North Koreans who know that the brutal forced labor, near-starvation rations and abuse by prison guards means that being sent there is akin to a death sentence. With research based on testimonies of Shin and others who have managed to flee the country, organizations, like the Human Rights Watch are campaigning to establish a UN commission of inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity taking place in the gwa-li-so and other detention centers in the country.

Biography:

Marc Wiese was born in Dortmund, Germany. He has been directing documentaries for television and cinema for over fifteen years. His films include Death by Delivery, Radovan Karadzic: Most Wanted?, Warkids & Youth in Palestine, Kanun: Blood for Honour, The Picture of the Napalm Girl, and Camp 14: Total Control Zone.

Contact Information:

Engstfeld Film
e: info@engstfeldfilm.de
w: www.camp14-film.com


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