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Title: Punishment Park

Date: 23.3.2008
Time: 20:00
Location: Under Konstruktion
Free entrance

Director: Peter Watkins
Year: 2008
Country: USA /
Language: English
Subs: English
Runtime, min: 88
Genre: Mockumentary

Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park’s pseudo-documentary style (continuing Watkins’ subversive innovations with Culloden and The War Game) places a British film crew amongst a group of young students and minor dissidents who have opted to spend three days in ‘Bear Mountain Punishment Park’. The detainees, rather than accept lengthy jail sentences for their ‘crimes’, gamble their freedom on an attempt to reach an American flag — on foot and without water — through the searing heat of the desert. The pursuit of Group 637 — a lethal, one-sided game of cat-and-mouse with a squad of heavily armed police and National Guardsmen — is contrasted with the corrupt trial of Group 638 by a quasi-judicial tribunal.

Watch trailer:
» http://youtube.com/watch?v=7XR1TZXmAmI

Links
» http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3526106/Punishment.Park.1971.USA.Peter.Watkins.DVDrip.XviD
» http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_Park