Under the Sun
Release date: 10/30/2015
Genres:
Documentary
Countries:
Czech Republic
Germany
Latvia
Russian Federation
Rating:
7.3
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.
Trailer
Actors
Kim Jong-un
Himself (archive footage)
Recommendations
Hush
03/06/1998
The Propaganda Game
10/03/2015
Bill Hicks: Revelations
05/27/1993
Footlight Parade
10/21/1933
The Mobfathers
03/31/2016
A Way Out
12/30/2017
Into the Inferno
09/07/2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
03/04/2016
My Scientology Movie
05/05/2016
Gantz
11/29/2010
Tampopo
11/23/1985
The Dark Valley
02/13/2014
Blackfish
06/07/2013
The Wailing
05/12/2016
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
10/31/2009
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
12/02/1988
A Beautiful Mind
12/14/2001
Swiss Army Man
06/24/2016
[REC]
11/23/2007
The Hunt
06/13/2012