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Under the sun / a film by Vitaly Mansky.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Korea (North)--Social life and customs.
- Korea (North).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Propaganda films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (106 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Korean with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- After years of negotiation the Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family, in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday). 'My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country...' says eight-year-old Zin-mi. And so it might seem as Mansky films her participating in joyous patriotic school pageants, in dance class, or with her parents, eating delicious food, in their lovely apartment. But the government handlers supervising the production did not realize that Mansky kept filming even after they had shouted 'Cut.' Under the Sun is the jaw-dropping result, a 'surreal and sinister... real-life version of The Truman Show' (The Hollywood Reporter).
- Credits:
- Director of potography, Alexandra Ivanova ; camera operator, Mihail Gorobchuk ; edited by Andrey Paperniy ; produced by Natalya Manskaya ; location sound recordist and field interpreter, Evgeniya Lachina ; music composed by Karlis Auzans ; sound director, Anrus Krenbergs ; co-producer, Simone Baumann, Filip Remunda, Peter Kubica.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Vertov Sia, ©2015.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 8, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-unsun Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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