Tag: Not-so-nice North Korea
Review of Vitaliy Manskiy’s amazing documentary on an ‘ordinary North Korean family,’ Under the Sun, new on DVD from Icarus Films + from the KQEK.com archives, Uli Gaulke’s Comrades in Dreams (2006) from Pathfinder.
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With Under the Sun, director Vitaliy Manskiy boldly took a gamble in presenting human suffering under the watchful eye of North Korea’s totalitarian regime…
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Review of The Lovers and the Despot, the surreal life-imitates-art story of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and award-winning film star Choi Eun-hee, both kidnapped by North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, currently playing at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
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One of the strangest tales in film history is the abduction of late South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and award-winning film star Choi Eun-hee by North Korea’s Kim Jong-il to improve his country’s film industry…
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Film: Good Transfer: Good VHS Extras: n/a Label: Section 23 Region: (NTSC) Released: February 20, 2001 Genre: Science-Fiction / North Korean / Propaganda Synopsis: A dying villager creates a vengeance deity that increases in size and might as it devours metal, and eventually transforms into a force oppressed villagers use to fend of an evil, […]
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