Free adaptation of the book "The Pitesti phenomenon" by Paul Goma. The last days of World War II. All people resembling Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, Bormann and other Nazi leaders are arrested and taken to a camp so that the real fascist criminals can be discovered and punished. Thus begins the long nightmare of these characters, who will suffer for unproven crimes. For a year they will live in total isolation from the rest of the world, living a hellish existence.
Direction
Daneliuc's suffocating long takes turn bureaucratic process into psychological torture.
Acting
Amateur cast brings devastating authenticity; no stars, only victims.
Production
Period-perfect camp reconstruction shot at actual former political prison.
Director
Mircea Daneliuc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned by communist censors for depicting Soviet 'liberation' as new oppression; released only after 2006.
Based on real Pitesti prison experiments where inmates were forced to torture each other—Daneliuc's fictional camp mirrors actual communist re-education horrors.
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