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Friday, January 2, 2015

CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE (DOCUMENTARY FILM)



            Ten years ago on this date, January 2, 2005, Shin Dong Hyuk, a North Korean Prisoner, made his escape from Kaechon internment camp (Kwan-li-so No. 14). We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will post several information about the German/South Korean Documentary film, ‘Camp 14: Total Control Zone’, in order to educate people about the human rights situation in North Korea. We also want to congratulate the director of the film, Marc Wiese for his work.


Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Camp 14: Total Control Zone is a 2012 German/South Korean documentary film directed by Marc Wiese. It features interviews with Shin Dong-hyuk who was born in the Kaechon internment camp (known as "Camp 14") in North Korea. The film details human rights abuses inflicted on him and witnessed by him as prisoner there.

A German documentary, Camp 14: Total Control Zone, directed by Marc Wiese, was released in 2012. It includes interviews with Shin Dong-hyuk and two former North Korean officers: the first, Kwon Hyuk, was a guard in Camp 22 and brought out amateur film footage (the only known footage of Camp 22), and the second, Oh Yang-nam, was a secret policeman who arrested people who were sent to camps. Supplementing the film are animated sequences of the camp created by Ali Soozandeh.


A still from the documentary film Camp 14 

Marc Wiese is a Dortmund-born German documentary filmmaker, best known for Camp 14: Total Control Zone, about Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have ever successfully escaped from a North Korean prison labor camp (where he was born), and to breach the borders of North Korea itself to China, arriving eventually in South Korea.

Wiese received an award from the Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming in 2009 for his television documentary, Kanun: The Law Of Honour

Camp 14 TIFF 2012 Interview w/ Director Marc Wiese
Published on Sep 26, 2012
http://myetvmedia.com/film-review/cam...

Directed by Marc Wiese, Camp 14: Total Control Zone is more than a documentary, this amazing testimony leads us to the abyss of mankind, to dehumanization! The movie has very effectively used animation to recreate some of the incidents at the camp. There are also interviews with the perpetrators of the torture at the camp that are very chilling. It is a remarkable story by a very brave and courageous boy Shin Dong-hyuk who miraculously escapes life in Camp 14.

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CAMP 14 - TOTAL CONTROL ZONE Trailer | Festival 2012 | Human Rights Watch 2013
Published on Jul 31, 2012
This powerful documentary employs intimate interviews and animated recreations to tell the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, whose dramatic escape from the North Korean labour camp where he had spent the first two decades of his life launched him into an outside world he had never known.

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Live Skype introduction and Q&A with director Marc Wiese on Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30pm

Official Selection, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2012

Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2012

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 the camp in 2005 and subsequently became something of an international celebrity, touring Europe and North America to tell his story to human rights conferences and activist groups — but life on the outside proved to have its own challenges. Weaving intimate interviews with Shin together with anecdotes from a former camp guard and a member of the secret police, and interspersing them with brilliant animated sequences depicting key moments in Shin's life, Marc Wiese's fascinating 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 labour, 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, Human Rights Watch is campaigning to establish a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity taking place in the gwa-li-so and other detention centres in the country.

For more information, visit hrw.org/asia/north-korea


Camp 14: Total Control Zone
Published on Sep 17, 2014
2012 German/South Korean documentary film directed by Marc Wiese. It features interviews with Shin Dong-hyuk who was born in the Kaechon internment camp (known as "Camp 14") in North Korea. The film details abuses inflicted on him and witnessed by him as prisoner there.


A still from the documentary film Camp 14 
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