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Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 2012

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

66%

Original Title

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Production Companies

Engstfeld Filmproduktion GmbH (Köln)

Director

Marc Wiese

Description

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.