- Directors: Andrzej Fidyk
- Format: Colour, Subtitled, Widescreen, PAL, DualDisc
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: NR (Not Rated) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Run Time: 83 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B004GE45U2
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57,975 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
- #65 in Film & TV > Documentary > Politics
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Today, more than 300.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea's concentration camps. Systematic slave labour, torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'.
A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the prosperous 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 experiences and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps.
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"This is a real eye opener. A tremendous movie and a breathtaking experience. An exceptionally important documentary. It´s a film that demands to be seen." - Movie Geeks United!
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"Awe-inspiring and phenomenally bittersweet." - Moving Pictures Magazine
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"A musical about concentration camps in North Korea? It sounds almost perverse, but is explosively good. - Masterpiece" - Aftenposten
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"Imaginatively peers deep inside North Korean communism. - A startling consideration of inhumanity." - Variety
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ALSO SUBTITLED IN FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, POLISH, NORWEGIAN, KOREAN, JAPANESE
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BONUS MATERIAL: YODUK STORY - THE MUSICAL (153 min)
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Format:DVD
Excellent! Its the first real in-depth insight into the lives of several North Koreans who have defected to South Korea, and who tell their stories. You can see for yourself the heartache they suffer. Really moving. Brings home how lucky the rest of us are to have freedom; which we largely take for granted.
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Missing some Korean translations
8 Jan 2012
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Riveting documentary. HOWEVER..... Multiple blank areas halfway through that are NOT translated to the Korean language. The DVD does advertise Korean. This was very disappointing for me as I plan to bring this to China for my Korean - inlaws to watch. I would have expected for a product made professionally with such a cost to have not left these translation gaps! Would have gotten 5 stars if not.
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