MOVIE
Under the Sun
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
ERA & CONTEXT
Under the Sun in its release era
Released in 2015, Under the Sun sits inside the 2010s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 2015-10-30
- TMDB score
- 7.2/10
- Original language
- DE
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia
- Studio
- Hypermarket Film, Saxonia Entertainment, Česká televize
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Topicspropagandacommunist propagandanorth korea
This title is available from the shared catalog, but it is not published as an index-targeted page for this specialty edition.