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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fischer, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Flatiron Books, 2015.
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.