The Victims
Kidnapping and hostage-taking continue to hit the headlines. When a successful rescue is effected, there's a flurry in the press and then the storm is forgotten-but for the victims their ordeal doesn't finish with their release. Later in their lives the memory of their experiences can affect them, often causing great mental distress. This condition is known as concentration camp, or KZ syndrome.
In this film people who have suffered imprisonment - hostages, prisoners of war and survivors of the concentration camps - talk about their experiences during and after capture, and reveal the long-lasting effects which are only now being recognised and treated. Narrator Ian Holm
Film editor DAVID WOODWARD
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY
Producer Christopher la Fontaine