The Life of an Agent
Surveillance: Secret Police Film Festival 1.
New York-i Nyílt Társadalom Intézet / Open Society Foundations, New York
Goethe-Institut Budapest
The first event of the retrospective film program “Surveillance: Secret Police Film Festival”, which includes an international selection of training films, newsreels and operative films produced by Communist Secret Police 1962–1989.
Secret Arrest / Titkos őrizetbevétel (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.
Hungary, Hungarian with English subtitles, 1973, 9 min
Documentation Methods Used in an Interior Surveillance /
Belső figyelések végrehajtása során alkalmazott dokumentációs eszközök (training film)
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, 1975, 8 min
The Life of an Agent / Az ügynök élete (documentary film)
How did the secret police operate in Communist Hungary? Find out in this compilation of training films from the Police Film Studio. Dir.: Gábor Zsigmond Papp, Hungary, Hungarian, English subtitles, 2004, 55 min
Introduction by and film talk with Gábor Zsigmond Papp (Film Director) and András Mink (Historian, OSA)
The program is in English.