Kimjongilia
The Flower Of Kim Jong Il
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 12, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | N.C. Heikin | |
Composition by | Michael Gordon | |
Director of Photography: | Kyle Saylors | |
Hosted by | Kang Chol-hwan, Shin Dong-hyuk, Mrs. Kim, Kim Cheol-woong, Lee Shin & Byeon Ok-soon |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Built around interviews with more than a half-dozen North Koreans who fled their country but can't shake its hold on their imaginations.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Lately outsiders are more likely to laugh at North Korea's despotic head than to think about those who suffer under him, and Kimjongilia is a welcome and necessary antidote to that impulse.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Watching these painful reports by escapees of starvation, concentration camps, torture, and killings is more frustrating than enlightening.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 2/4 --
A classic case of a documentary filmmaker not trusting her material.
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Slant Magazine
The film is build around interviews with more than a half-dozen North Koreans who fled their country....These harrowing tales are reason enough to see the movie.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Heikin has gathered rare video shot in-country and riveting escapee stories to create a commendable upgrade to our limited fount of North Korean knowledge, which almost completely mitigates the doc's numerous problems.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 3.5/5 --
...Heikin's riveting, horribly beautiful film has given many of these people the voice they so deserve.
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
How can a nation of nearly 24 million people hold up one of the world's most infamous despots as a hero' In most of the world, Kim Jong-Il, president of North Korea, is either feared or despised; he's displayed an open willingness to use nuclear weapons on his enemies, free speech and other basic human rights are all but unknown under his rule, and while a tiny handful of people enjoy wealth in North Korea, a famine claimed the lives of over three million in the nation in the 1990s, with little improvement since. But at home, Kim Jong-Il is all but worshiped by the vast majority of his subjects, who celebrate him in song and legend, and one admirer has even bred a special begonia in his honor, which is named "Kimjongilia" and said to celebrate "wisdom, justice, love, and peace." Dancer-turned-filmmaker N.C. Heikin examines both sides of Kim Jong-Il's public persona in the documentary KIMJONGILIA, which compares and contrasts interviews with North Koreans who speak with awe and admiration of their president (alongside unintentionally comic state-produced propaganda films) with shocking testimony from South Korean exiles who suffered at the hands of Kim's police and spent years in his prisons. KIMJONGILIA received its North American premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 106,163
- UPC: 705105268415
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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