A Kim Jong-Il production
Subtitle: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
By: Paul Fischer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781250054265
Subjects: Motion pictures; Actresses; Kidnapping, 1978; Motion picture producers and directors; Biography; History
Description: "A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 345- 353).
Table of contents: title: August, 1982; title: Reel one: a sense of destiny. A photograph on the blue house lawn ; Director Shin and 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; title: 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; title: Intermission: the people's actress Woo in-Hee; title: 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; title: Vienna ; From Kim to Kim ; The stars and stripes; title: 2013.