A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power /
"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 toda...
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New York :
Flatiron Books,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: August, 1982
- Reel one: a sense of destiny. A photograph on the blue house lawn
- Director Shin & 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.