Tags: Documentary North Korea Russia 2015 2016 Movie

Under the Sun

Name: Under the Sun
Released: 2015-10-30
Rating: 7.4

Ratings: IMDB 7.4 / TMDB 7.2

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Director: Vitaly Mansky
Region: Czechia, Russia, Germany
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-30(伊赫拉瓦纪录片电影节)
Runtime: 106 min
Original language: German
Release dates: United States 2016-07-06, Japan 2017-01-21, South Korea 2016-04-27
Keywords: north korea, propaganda, communist propaganda

Overview

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.