Yodok stories
(2010)

Nonfiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/KOREAN/YODOK

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/KOREAN/YODOK Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Place of publication not identified] : Piraya Film, [2010]
©2010
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

LANGUAGE
Korean
NOTES

Winner of Jerusalem Film Festival in the Spirit of Freedom Award

Today, more than 300,000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea's concentration camps. A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the propsperous South Korea. Some of them gather and decide to make an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. Despite death threats and many obstacles the musical becomes a tour de force for this ensemble of refugees. For them a sought after possibility opens to talk about their experience and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps

DVD 1 presents the original stories told by people who managaed to escape the camps, and the creation of a musical

DVD 2 present the stage musical directed by Jung Sun San

Director of photography, Tore Vollan and Torstein Grude ; editor, Jan Mikolaj Mironowicz ; music, Eun-il Kang ; costume designer, Kyung-mi Kim ; production designer, Sol Art Chung ; director and writer of the documentary film, Andrzej Fidyk

Not rated

DVD; widescreen presentation; NTSC

Korean dialogue (DVD-9) with optional Norwegian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish or Spanish subtitles

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