Film director, Maciej Drygas reveals the real story behind the sacrifice using secret police films and records, and via interviews with relatives and eyewitnesses. In front of thousands of people, Ryszard Siwiec poured gasoline over himself and lit himself on fire during a festival at a Stadium in Warsaw on September 8, 1968. Hear My Cry / Usłyszcie mój krzyk (documentary film) Source of the 3 films: The Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw ![]() General Wojciech Jaruzelski pays a visit to the PESEL Center in Warsaw. Poland, in Polish with English subtitles, 1974, 8 min PESEL is the Polish identification number still in use as of 2015, however its genesis in the surveillance program undertaken by the Interior Ministry dates back to the 1970s. Poland, in Polish with English subtitles, 1968-1976, 24 minĬommunist Technologies of Surveillance: PESEL population registry / Budowa Rządowego Centrum Informatycznego PESEL (newsreel) Introduction and follow up analyses by Ioana Macrea-Toma (Historian, OSA) and András Mink (Historian OSA)Ī Chronicle of Operations / Dwanaście filmów operacyjnych (operative film)Įxcerpts from operative films from different events, supplemented by comments on the events and the techniques used during the surveillance operations. Nicolae Mărgineanu, Romania, Romanian with English voiceover, 2009, 56 min It's a movie of unappeased trauma, hinting at other continuities in nowadays Romanian political life. The persons who viewed their files engage in storytelling their dramatic encounters with the secret police and, at the same time, reflect on the logic of the documents who insidiously mapped their lives. The movie portrays the extreme case of surveillance under Romanian communism in between 70s and 80s Securitate was a key-institution in Romania: it not only observed its citizens, but also brutally repressed and domesticated them. Under Surveillance by the Securitate 1970-1980 (documentary film) Hungary, Hungarian with English subtitles, 1962, 18 min The evidence will be used to blackmail the citizens and turn them into secret agents. ![]() The goal is to find any prohibited and hidden objects, like US Dollars. Secret House Search/ Titkos házkutatás (instructional film)Ĭommunist state security agents enter a home of a couple while they are out at work and at a spa. Introduction by and film talk with Gábor Zsigmond Papp (Film Director) and András Mink (Historian, OSA) Dir.: Gábor Zsigmond Papp, Hungary, Hungarian, English subtitles, 2004, 55 min How did the secret police operate in Communist Hungary? Find out in this compilation of training films from the Police Film Studio. The Life of an Agent / Az ügynök élete (documentary film) Hungary, Hungarian with English subtitles, 1975, 8 min Step by step tutorial for professional practitioner agents on a mission on how to use a photo camera hidden in a ladies handbag. Hungary, Hungarian with English subtitles, 1973, 9 minĭocumentation Methods Used in an Interior Surveillance /īelső figyelések végrehajtása során alkalmazott dokumentációs eszközök (training film) Through two cases, the film reveals the techniques employed by the state security in order to demoralize and abuse the integrity of the targeted people, and turn them into secret agents. Secret Arrest / Titkos őrizetbevétel (training film) Also in the program are creative documentary films composed of and built around secret police surveillance films. The program explores how the secret police imagined and managed their surveillance activities and what they were actually seeing while watching. ![]() This retrospective film program includes an international selection of training films, newsreels and operative films produced by Communist Secret Police 1962-1989. In connection with the exhibition Watching You, Watching Me, the Open Society Archives, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Budapest and secret police archives in Germany, Poland and Slovakia, is showcasing a retrospective film program inspired by the photos of the secret Stasi archives curated by Simon Menner. October 21 – December 2, 2015, 6 Wednesdays Hoover Archives Research Assistance Scholarship.
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