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Summary:

"A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: August, 1982
• Reel one: a sense of destiny. A photograph on the blue house lawn
• Director Shin and Madame Choi
• Shrimp among whales
• A double rainbow over Mount Paekdu
• Kim Jong Il's first loves
• Fathers and sons
• Inside the Pyongyang picture show
• A three-second kiss
• Repulse bay
• Reel two: guests of the dear leader. The hermit kingdom
• Accused
• Musicals, movies, and ideological studies
• Taken
• The others
• Escape from Chestnut Valley
• Shin Sang-Ok died here
• The torture position
• Division 39
• The hunger strike

• Director Shin is coming
• Intermission: the people's actress Woo in-Hee
• Reel three: produced by Kim Jong-Il. Together
• The tape recorder
• Lights, camera
• Out of the North
• Like a European movie
• The press conference
• Same bed, different dreams
• A full shooting schedule
• The rubber monster
• Vienna
• From Kim to Kim
• The stars and stripes
• Epilogue: 2013
• Afterword.

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Author/Creator:

Fischer, Paul , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A Kim Jong-Il production: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power [by Fischer, P.]

Subjects:

Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011

Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006 — Kidnapping, 1978

Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930-2018 — Kidnapping, 1978

Motion pictures — Korea (North) — History — 20th century

Motion picture producers and directors — Korea (South) — Biography

Actresses — Korea (South) — Biography

Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006

Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930-2018

1900-1999

Motion pictures

Motion picture producers and directors

Actresses

Kidnapping

Korea (North)

Korea (South)

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-353).

Physical Description:

x, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

PN1993.5.K63 F57 2015

ISBNs:

9781250054265 (hardcover)
1250054265 (hardcover)
9781250054289 (ebook) [Invalid]
9781250054272
1250054273

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 99961968536

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014040366

OCLC Numbers:

881437062