HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Fischer, Paul (Documentary film producer), author.
Subjects
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006 -- Kidnapping, 1978.
Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930- -- Kidnapping, 1978.
Kidnapping -- Korea (North) -- Case studies.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Actresses -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Korea (North)
Korea (North) -- Politics and government.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Fischer, Paul (Documentary film producer), author.
by title:
A Kim Jong-Il produc...
MARC Display
A Kim Jong-Il production [large type] : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power / Paul Fischer.
by
Fischer, Paul (Documentary film producer), author.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2015.
Subjects
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006 -- Kidnapping, 1978.
Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930- -- Kidnapping, 1978.
Kidnapping -- Korea (North) -- Case studies.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Actresses -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Korea (North)
Korea (North) -- Politics and government.
ISBN:
9781410479747 (large print)
1410479749 (large print)
Series:
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Description:
645 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Contents:
Introduction : August, 1982 -- Reel one : 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 the 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.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi), South Korea's most famous actress, and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the country's most famous filmmaker. Madam Choi vanished first. When Shin went to Hong Kong to investigate, he was attacked and woke up wrapped in plastic sheeting aboard a ship bound for North Korea. Madam Choi lived in isolated luxury, allowed only to attend the Dear Leader's dinner parties. Shin, meanwhile, tried to escape, was sent to prison camp, and "re-educated." After four years he cracked, pledging loyalty. Reunited with Choi at the first party he attends, it is announced that the couple will remarry and act as the Dear Leader's film advisors. Together they made seven films, in the process gaining Kim Jong-Il's trust. While pretending to research a film in Vienna, they flee to the U.S. embassy and are swept to safety. A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, A Kim Jong-Il Production 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.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Library For The Blind and Print Disabled
Large Type
LT 791.43095 FI
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.