CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 1h 16m

Welcome to North Korea!

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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?

Directed byLinda Kallistová Jablonská

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 16m
Language
CS
Released
February 26, 2009
Studios
NegativHBO Česká republika

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Directed by
Linda Kallistová Jablonská
Written by
Linda Kallistová Jablonská
Produced by
Milan Kuchynka

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