Palavra-chave Forced Labor

Um entomologista sofre torturas psicológicas e sexuais extremas depois de ser levado em cativeiro pelos moradores de uma pobre aldeia à beira-mar.

Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jacob, um comerciante judeu polaco, vive num gueto com toda a comunidade judaica local. Ali, ele procura, após uma sucessão de acasos, dar vida e ânimo aos seus companheiros de infortúnio, dando-lhes notícias falsas sobre o avanço das tropas aliadas. Porém, os alemães descobrem a existência do seu suposto rádio e decidem-se a destruí-lo.

Uma menina de cinco anos embarca numa missão angustiante pela sobrevivência no meio da súbita ascensão e do regime de terror do Khmer Vermelho no Camboja.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.