Kim Jong Il: a film director who ran a country

• Authors: Levi Nicolas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Th e considered text aims at explaining the passion of the former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) for cinema. Th e paper will proceed in three steps: Explaining the Cinema Passion of Kim Jong Il, outlining its realizations in North Korea. Th e third party will focus on the kidnapping of Choi Seun Hee and Shin Sang Ok. Kim Jong Il wanted that all fi lms were made according to the North Korean ideology for which he was responsible. Starting from the mid 1970’s, Kim Jong Il implemented cinema in his strategical polical approach through some of the political departments of the Korea Workers’ Party. North Korean movies were supposed to strengthen and legitimate the power of the Kim family and the image of North Korea abroad. As far as media were under the control of the state organization Kim Jong Il was a director, a producer, even a costume maker, a screenwriter, cameraman, a sound engineer and he was also seen as a fi lm theorist. What has to be enlighten is the fact that until the his death, Kim Jong Il was aff ected by cinema.

Keywords

EN

Choi Ik Kyu, Choi Seun Hee; Cinema; Kim Il Sung; Kim Jong Eun; Kim Jong Il; Kim Jong Suk; Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Korean Workers Party; Shin Sang Ok; Song Hye Rim, South Korea; Yi Jong; Mok

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
• Journal: Journal of Modern Science
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2(25)
• Pages: 155-166

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Levi Nicolas

• Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences

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Identifiers

ISSN

1734-2031