Nemzeti Gyászpark Látogatóközpont

CONDEMNED TO LIVE – PROLOGUE

Condemned to Live, a documentary produced by the National Heritage Institute uses Interior Ministry footage from March 1989, revealing dilapidated conditions of the remote corner of the New Public Cemetery. (The film is screened with permission from the National Széchényi Library’s 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive.)

Condemned to Live – A Documentary about the Small Prison (2015, 52 mins)
National Heritage Institute – Match Frame Productions
Director: Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Máté Artur Vincze
Director of photography: Máté Artur Vincze, Márton Vízkelety
Music: Szabolcs Mátyássy

THE SMALL PRISON

Animation film about the history of the former place of executions, the Small Prison. The full video is available in the Visitor Centre.

The Small Prison (2016, 5 mins)
National Heritage Institute – Match Frame Productions – KEDD Stúdió
Director: Miklós Gerdelics
Text: Áron Nagy-Csere

THE PLOTS NO. 298, 300 AND 301

Animation film about the history of plots 298, 300 and 301. The full video is available in the Visitor Centre.

298–300–301 (2016, 6 mins)
National Heritage Institute – Match Frame Productions – KEDD Stúdió
Director: Miklós Gerdelics
Text: Áron Nagy-Csere

1956

Animation film about the history of 1956 Revolution, War of Independence and subsequent reprisals. The full video is available in the Visitor Centre.

1956 (2016, 8 mins)
National Heritage Institute – Match Frame Productions – KEDD Stúdió
Director: Miklós Gerdelics
Text: János Rainer M.

CONDEMNED TO LIVE – A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SMALL PRISON

Condemned to Live presents the former place of execution, the Small Prison, through the recollections of survivors. Three of the four interviewees (Jenő Fónay, János Puchert, László Regéczy-Nagy and Mária Wittner) escaped from the rope in the last moment, but many of their companions were hanged. Condemned to Live is a harrowing account of the impossibility of coming to terms with the trauma and the survivors’ endless compulsions. Condemned to Live was broadcast by several Hungarian television channels, it made it to the competition programme of the 2016 Hungarian Film Week and was successfully screened in the United States at events and festivals.