Escape

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Resck camp isn't even marked on the map,'' muses Comrade Nagi as he threatens an elderly inmate. A hopeless situation for the internees in this prison. Save for one man's mission to escape from behind the Iron Curtain and broadcast to the world their existence. Gyala Molnar is detained by the police on New Years Eve, 1948. He is never seen again. Unknown to his family and friends, Molnar is locked away in a secluded labor camp outside of Budapest. By a twist of fate, Molnar's arresting officer has also been imprisoned. Finding strange bedfellows and dealing with necessary evils, Molnar is forced to let the man join the team of hopeful escapees. But true friends are hard to identify in a hostile environment. And trust is sometimes misplaced. The story is based on real events Livia Gyarmathy experienced during her internment at the first gulag of Central Eastern Europe. Already an award-winning director, Livia Garamathy's Escape took home the prize for Best Script in the 1997 National Film Festival of Budapest. --Sandra Tuttle