Under the Sun

Name: Under the Sun
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-30
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Lee Zin-mi, Hye-yong, Lim Soo-yong, Oh-gyong, Choi Song-min

Rating

5.0 (1)

Release Date

10/30/2015

Runtime

110 mins

Genres

Documentary

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

Revenue

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A carefully observed contrast between the garish, choreographed performances demanded by the state and the muted, ordinary life lived in between them, a document of how propaganda can colonize even the most intimate family moments. The effect is deeply eerie, less through explicit horror than through the sheer weight of constraint made visible.