SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK (“Outlaws”) Production: Hungary, 1965 Director: Miklós Jancsó US release title: The Round-Up Category: War Atrocity In the desolate aftermath of Kossuth’s 1848 rebellion against the oppressive Hapsburg Austrian Empire, the last remaining nationalists are imprisoned and subjected to physical and psychological torture. Framed in stark black-and-white images of devastation, Continue Reading
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HEI TAI YANG 731
HEI TAI YANG 731(“731: Total Eclipse Of The Sun”)Production: Hong Kong, 1988English title: Men Behind The SunDirector: T.F. Mou Tun-FeiCategory: War Atrocity/Human ExperimentsA faked, but hideously realistic documentary account of true war and experimental medical atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese kempeitai in Manchuria during WW2, at the covert bacteriological mass-extermination Continue Reading
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA]
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA] Production: Cambodia, 1979 Director: Dinh Phong, Ho Van Tay Category: Atrocity Army cameramen Phong and Tay were with the Vietnamese troops that drove back the Khmer Rouge in a sweeping January 1979 offensive, and were the first to film inside the abandoned Tuol Sleng prison/torture/extermination camp, Continue Reading
UNTITLED [THE TORTURE VIDEOS OF LEONARD LAKE & CHARLES NG]
UNTITLED [THE TORTURE VIDEOS OF LEONARD LAKE & CHARLES NG] Production: USA, c.1983-85 Director: Lake & Ng Category: Atrocity There is no doubt that numerous sadists, paedophiles and serial killers have filmed or videotaped their crimes – not for profit, but for their own personal gratification (a perversion so vividly depicted in Continue Reading