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Welcome to North Korea!

2009 76 min Czech
Wubly rating 6.3 IMDb rating 6.4

Documentary.In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a "journey into the unknown", a tour of North Korea. That spring was the second time since 1990 that a group of Czech tourists set foot in the DPRK. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps for its citizens and doesn't hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed a view of a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by "guides". What is more, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of our own past. Which emotions do our travellers experience: sympathy, nostalgia or, in contrast, happiness that "we already have this behind us"? How does a Czech person, after being accustomed to eighteen years of freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?

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Linda Kallistová Jablonská Director · Jakub Voves Editor

First release February 26, 2009 · Produced in Czechia · Production HBO Česká republika

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Vítejte v KLDR!

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Czech

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Czech

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Czechia · February 26, 2009

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No release date listed for United States.

Czechia

January 27, 2011 · TV · ČT2

Greece

March 12, 2010 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Hungary

May 7, 2009 · TV premiere

Netherlands

November 19, 2009 · IDFA Festival

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