Kimjongilia English Documentary Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Starring:Kang Chol Hwan,
Lee Shin, Choi Young Hun
Director:N.C. Heikin
Writer:N.C. Heikin
Studio:Lorber Films
Genre:Documentary, Drama
Runtime:1 hour 15 minutes
Release Date:March 19th, 2010
Country: USA | France | South Korea
Language: English | Korean
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Kimjongilia English Hollywood Film.The film Directed by N.C. Heikin.
Plot Summary:North Korean defectors tell their stories of repression, escape and hope.
Kimjongilia English Film Synopsis :
N.C. Heikin's unblinking indictment of life in North Korea under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Il. This searing examination of the communist dictatorship established by Kim Il-sung and continued today by his son Kim Jong-il dispels the illusion of a Worker's Paradise peddled by the North Korean government and exposes the injustice, tragedy and famine that has prevailed over the past forty years.
Heikin compiles a series of testimonies – and daring escape stories – from concentration camp refugees, to defectors to former Korean Army officers. The result is a collage of firsthand witnesses to the unrepentant pain caused by a tyrannical leadership. The courageous individuals documented here have risked everything in the hope of exposing the truth about this cloistered, xenophobic territory. Their testimonies are supplemented by interpretive dance and a riveting score, indicative of the filmmakers keen interest in Korean art – both the propagandistic genre sanctioned by the government and the forbidden artistic expression that can result in execution. Footage of cheery government agitprop is juxtaposed with survivor testimonies and cold, hard facts. The film's practice of exposing the truth through ironic exhibition extends to its title, "Kimjongilia," being the name of the gorgeous red flower symbol created to celebrate Kim Jong Il's 46th birthday. This feature-length documentary is a damning condemnation of a regime founded upon total oppression of its people
For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash the spread of communism. For all Koreans, it was a tragedy. The country was not just divided; it was devastated. The death toll was astronomical, and the destruction profound. Many engage in assigning blame for the war according to their political beliefs, but this is a useless exercise. The point is that the human rights situation in North Korea today is catastrophic. KIMJONGILIA is the first film to let North Korean refugees tell their stories in their own words
Movie Review:
Many of us here in America are at least casually aware of who Kim Jong-il is. We may have heard that the leader of North Korea hates America, we may have been told his country belongs to a modern day Axis of Evil, we may have seen him lampooned in Team America World Police, we may have come to believe that the tyrant is bat shit-crazy. Chances are though, because of North Korea's self-induced seclusion from the rest of the world, most of us probably have little idea just how tyrannical Kim Jong-il really is and just how adversely North Koreans have been effected under his reign. In steps N.C. Heikin with her documentary Kimjongilia. Interviewing multiple North Korean refugees who have fled the country to escape unspeakable atrocities, Kimjongilia gives a voice to those who have previously been silenced by oppression. Finally given the freedom to speak, the tales the refugees have to tell are difficult to hear. Often shocking and difficult to comprehend, Kimjongilia is nevertheless an eye-opening examination of a nation and leader of whom we've been harmfully too ignorant to the detriment of thousands of innocent lives.
The title of the film, Kimjongilia, comes from the name of a flower presented to the North Korean leader that, crazy as it may sound, symbolizes love, wisdom, justice, and peace. As outsiders here in the west, it's easy to condemn a man whose administration refuses to allow the media inside the country, maintains slave labor within concentration camps, executes deserters and critics of the country, and does it all while propaganda films and commercials convince North Korean citizens that their leader is a benevolent god in human form. As an audience, we can hear the stories about the man hung upside down and beaten for 14 hours and the woman who fled to China only to be sold as a sex slave by traffickers and think, "of course, whoever propagates this atmosphere is evil." The true horror about such tales though, is that North Koreans assume everything they're subjected to is business as usual. Refugees who escape to even the poorest sections of China or South Korea are shocked and amazed to see that everyone has food on the table every day, even if it's only something as meager as rice. If they stay in North Korea, they must abide by laws that command them to eat only twice a day in an effort to curb the agricultural and financial poverty caused after Kim Jong-il reportedly divvied up billions in NGO aid to the richest portion of the country.
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