Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea's concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'. A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the prosperous South Korea. Some of them gather and decide to make an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. Despite death treats and many obstacles the musical becomes a tour de force for this ensemble of refugees and for them a possibility opens to talk about their experiences and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps.
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Andrzej Fidyk Director
United States release January 1, 2008 · Produced in Norway, Poland · Languages English, Korean
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Piraya Film
Production
Piraya Film A/S
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Norway · Poland
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Korean
Release dates
United States · January 1, 2008
Theatrical
Czechia
March 12, 2009 · One World Film Festival
Greece
March 17, 2010 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Japan
October 5, 2009 · Refugee Film Festival
Norway
October 16, 2009
Poland
May 12, 2008 · Planete Doc Review
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