North Korea's cinema of dreams

[ensho]

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/02/2011217113256267999.html


101 East gains rare insight into the beating heart of North Korea's film industry.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's love of film is well-documented, but few outsiders know that he is revered as a genius of cinema by his own people.

Now, this groundbreaking film opens a window inside the world's most secretive country and an elite academy, where young actors are hand-picked to serve a massive propaganda machine.

Filmmakers Lynn Lee and James Leong spent more than two years on this project, becoming the first foreigners to film inside Pyongyang's University of Cinematic and Dramatic Arts.

On this edition of 101 East, we gain a rare insight into the beating heart of North Korea's extraordinary film industry.

Click here for more about Lynn Lee's and James Leong's shoot in North Korea.

This 101 East episode airs from Thursday, February 17, 2011 at the following times GMT: Thursday: 2230; Friday: 0930; Saturday: 0330; Sunday: 1630.
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just so you know

[old mark]

1. K&R. Somwhere I have read about the DPRNK's films and TV programming-

it seems to be a quasi religious/mythological portrayal of the regime as nearly divine superheroes, fighting the evil world for the good of all humanity...It would be laughable if they did not have such a brutal police, military and prison system to back it all up. IMO, this is the sickest, most evil regime on earth at this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea


mark

[ensho]

2. did you watch the video? its very interesting

nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. It is well worth the time and opens the window

a little on North Korea... The film museum... LOL and then they go to the university of arts, then visit the student's apartment with her scientist father and mother.

Yikes are they brainwashed dear leader.

[old mark]

4. Yeah- I'm glowing in the prosperity of the Workers whatever even as we speak.

Their "Leader" was delusional and insane, and the few insights into their programming and indeed into their sad society are frightening and repulsive.

Read some of the comments at the AJ sight-there are evidently people in the real world who think the DPRNK is a great place to live. That is frightening all by itself.

Thanks for the post.

mark

[geek tragedy]

5. "few outsiders know that he is revered as a genius of cinema by his own people."

Isn't it common knowledge that he is worshipped by his subjects as the best ever in all fields, athletic or artistic?

[old mark]

6. Here's some videos taken in a DPRK prison....not easy to watch, be warned...

http://www.vbs.tv/blog/north-korean-prison-camps-are-not-fun


There are also several other sites relating to North Korean prisons as slave labor camps. I have read that several sites in the far north of the country are even worse than this one-they are death camps.

mark