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Release Date:
October 30, 2015
Original Title:
Im Strahl der Sonne
Alternate Titles:
Inside Nordkorea
Saules staros
Under the Sun Documentary
V luchakh solntsa
日光之下
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Hypermarket Film
Saxonia Entertainment
Studio Vertov
Vertov Studio
Česká televize
Production Countries:
Czech Republic | Germany | Latvia | Russia
Ratings / Certifications:
JP: G RU: 16+
Runtime: 106
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.
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Cinematography:
Alexandra Ivanova
Director:
Vitaly Mansky
Director of Photography:
Alexandra Ivanova
Editor:
Andrey Paperny
Idea:
Vitaly Mansky
Music:
Kārlis Auzāns
Producer:
Vít Klusák
Simone Baumann
Filip Remunda
Natalia Manskaya
Petr Kubica
Sound:
Evgeniya Lachina
Anrijs Krenbergs
Writer:
Vitaly Mansky
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