The Juche Idea (2008)
Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. This experimental satire that examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films.
- Date of release
- 2008-03-31
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Director
- Jim Finn
Casting
- Jung Yoon Lee — Yoon Jung
- Daniela Kostova — Russian Woman
- Sung Kim — North Korean Man
- Oleg Mavromatti — Russian Man
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