Fischer, Paul,

A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power / Paul Fischer. - 353pages 24cm

Introduction: August, 1982 -- Reel one: a sense of destiny. A photograph on the blue house lawn -- Director Shin & Madame Choi -- Shrimp among whales -- A double rainbow over Mount Paekdu -- Kim Jong Il's first loves -- Fathers and sons -- Inside the Pyongyang picture show -- A three-second kiss -- Repulse bay -- Reel two: guests of the dear leader. The hermit kingdom -- Accused -- Musicals, movies, and ideological studies -- Taken -- The others -- Escape from Chestnut Valley -- Shin Sang-Ok died here -- The torture position -- Division 39 -- The hunger strike -- Director Shin is coming -- Intermission: the people's actress Woo in-Hee -- Reel three: produced by Kim Jong-Il. Together -- The tape recorder -- Lights, camera -- Out of the North -- Like a European movie -- The press conference -- Same bed, different dreams -- A full shooting schedule -- The rubber monster -- Vienna -- From Kim to Kim -- The stars and stripes -- Epilogue: 2013 -- Afterword.

9781250054265 (hardcover)

2014040366


Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011
Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006 --Kidnapping, 1978.
Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930-2018 --Kidnapping, 1978.


Motion pictures--History--Korea (North)--20th century.
Motion picture producers and directors--Korea (South)--Biography.
Actresses--Korea (South)--Biography.

PN1993.5.K63 / F48 2015

791.430951/93