The Confession

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state.

• based on novel or book
• czechoslovakia
• based on true story
• solitary confinement
• torture
• based on memoir or autobiography
• interrogation
• secret police
• stalinism
• false confession
• political thriller
• show trial
• interrogator
• forced confession