director:
Jim Finn
playwright:
Jim Finn
actor:
Jung Yoon Lee
/
Daniela Kostova
/
Sung Kim
/
Oleg Mavromatti
region:
United States
length: 1h 2m
release date: 2008-03-31
IMDb: tt1233599
Overview
Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. This experimental satire that examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films.