Camp 14: Total Control Zone
2012 · 104 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 1,180 VOTES · DIR. Marc Wiese
Overview
Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.
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00:00:39 I still suffer from nightmares.
00:04:54 and we gather all the coal that had fall out to the ground.
00:08:05 Or maybe yes, when I went to a public executions with my mother.
00:11:48 that newspaper contained a portrait of the leader Kim Il-Sung.
00:16:04 They know all about labour camps in North Korea in details.
00:19:23 Simply put: if you want to survive in the camp, you have to obey.
00:23:16 Before they came to the camp, they usually led a life of affluence.
00:27:35 In all the years I was there, I never saw anyone complaining.
00:32:33 Since the teacher ordered us to get her from home, we sought out her family.
00:38:31 I was hungry every day.
00:41:29 I was very resentful towards my mother and brother at the time.
00:47:29 They took me to the interrogation room.
00:52:22 We had a torture chamber. It was a huge aquarium.
00:56:05 and look at my body after a shower.
01:02:00 My friend the older man in my cell wished be all the best.
01:07:16 had been completely alien to me.
01:12:36 I just waited until one of the inmates in the group was beaten to death...
01:17:55 He told me about programs he watched on television
01:20:34 I wanted to eat rice until I was full.
01:23:48 It felt to me like this world was happy.
01:26:57 Maybe he was shot for my escape.
01:31:43 I felt as if I was floating above the clouds. I also always had a gun on me.
01:35:27 I want to live in the camp where I was born.
200:00:00 incarcerated in North Korean labour camps.