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Under the Sun
Im Strahl der Sonne
2015 · Film · documentary · 110 min
Directed by Vitaly Mansky
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
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This is not documentary on North Korea. Its a documentary on ' the north korea show', there isn't even a glimpse of 'real' real korea in those documentaries. Youtube is filled with these tourist documentaries, everyone from bbc to your next door tourist neighbor seems to have one about it. Almost all of them with identical content. All of them present NK in a very sterotypical way, brainwashed population, cult of kims, hatred for america, starving children, deserted roads, total govt grip on people ect ect.
I recommend the watching the follwing media instead
1. Children of the Secret State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI1EoMOXXk
2. Loves and the Despot
3. Under the Sun