DVD: Comrades in Dreams (2006)
In Comrades in Arms, director Uli Gaulke intercuts somewhat fly-on-the-wall documentary segments of four disparate film exhibitors: a film club in Chong-Ri, North Korea, managed by two longtime best friends…
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Not-so-nice North Korea: Part 3 – Under the Sun (2015)
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.
DVD: Under the Sun (2015)
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…
Not-so-nice North Korea: Part 2 – The Lovers and the Despot (2016)
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.
Film: Lovers and the Despot, The (2016)
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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