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Salt (1985 Film)
''Salt'' (, ) is a 1985 North Korean tragedy film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It is the third of Shin's North Korean films after Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted and brought to the country against their will. Choi Eun-hee, Choi stars in ''Salt'' as an unnamed mother who disapproves of her son after he runs away with guerrillas, but eventually comes to see them as fighting for a just cause. The film is set in 1930s Kando (Jiandao) where ethnic Koreans are persecuted by the Chinese and Japanese. The film employed a new virtue in North Korean cinema of short and condensed stories instead of multi-part epics. Unusual for a North Korean film, it was favorably reviewed by foreign critics. Choi's performance in particular is praised for realism. She was awarded the Best Actress prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985 for her role. Plot The film opens with a quote from the Bible (for the first time in the histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Sang-ok
Shin Sang-ok (; 1925 or 1926 – April 11, 2006), anglicized as Simon Sheen, was a South Korean filmmaker who directed 74 films in a career spanning over five decades. He is best known in South Korea for his efforts during the 1950s and 1960s, many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee. Shin posthumously received the Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea), Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist. In 1978, Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, Shin and Choi were kidnapped by order of Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-il, who wanted them to improve the North Korean film industry. The couple remained in captivity for 8 years and Shin directed seven films for Kim, including ''An Emissary of No Return'', ''Runaway (1984 North Korean film), Runaway'' (both 1984), ''Love, Love, My Love'', ''Salt (1985 film), Salt'', and ''Pulgasari'' (produced in 1985), before they escaped in 1986 and sought asylum in the United States. Shin gained American citizenship in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as its first Supreme Leader (North Korean title), supreme leader from North Korea#Founding, its establishment in 1948 until Death and state funeral of Kim Il Sung, his death in 1994. Afterwards, he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Il and was declared Eternal leaders of North Korea, Eternal President. He held the posts of the Premier of North Korea, Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President of North Korea, President from 1972 to 1994. He was General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) from 1949 to 1994 (titled as chairman from 1949 to 1966 and as general secretary after 1966). Coming to power after the end of Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese rule over Korea in 1945 following Japan's surrender in World War II, he authorized Operation Pokpung, the invasion of First Republic of Korea, South K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan International Film Festival
The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF; ), formerly the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), held annually in Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held from 13 to 21 September 1996, was also the first international film festival in Korea. The main focus of the BIFF is to introduce new films and first-time directors, especially those from Asian countries. Another notable feature is the appeal of the festival to young people, both in terms of the large youthful audience it attracts and through its efforts to develop and promote young talent. In 1999, the Pusan Promotion Plan (renamed Asian Project Market in 2011) was established to connect new directors to funding sources. The 16th BIFF in 2011 saw the festival move to a new permanent home, the Busan Cinema Center in Centum City. History 1990s * 1st Busan International Film Festival, 13–21 September 1996 : Films screened: 173 films from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A History
A History may refer to: * ''A History'' (1982–1985), a compilation album by The Golden Palominos * ''A History'' (1986–1989), a compilation album by The Golden Palominos {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Schönherr
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yehochanan'', meaning "YHWH is gracious". The name became popular in Northern Europe, especially in Germany because of Christianity. Common German variants for Johannes are ''Johann'', ''Hannes'', '' Hans'' (diminutized to ''Hänschen'' or ''Hänsel'', as known from "''Hansel and Gretel''", a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers), '' Jens'' (from Danish) and '' Jan'' (from Dutch, and found in many countries). In the Netherlands, Johannes was without interruption the most common masculine birth name until 1989. The English equivalent for Johannes is John. In other languages *Joan, Jan, Gjon, Gjin and Gjovalin in Albanian *'' Yoe'' or '' Yohe'', uncommon American form''Dictionary of American Family Names'', Oxford University Press, 2013. *Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Petrov
Leonid Petrov is a university academic and researcher in the study of North Korea and international relations in North East Asia. He is also has expertise in Asian history, Asian cultural studies, tourism management and multicultural studies. Education Petrov graduated in 1994 from the St. Petersburg State University with a MA degree in Korean History and Language. He has a PhD from the Australian National University in 2003. Career Petrov has worked as a translator for the Korean Soccer Team, he has also worked in academia at the university of Sydney, lecturing Korean History at the Intercultural Institute of California in San Francisco. as well as ANU College for Asia and the Pacific. North Korean expertise He is a sought after media commentator in the inner workings of North Korea and the current regime. In early 2017, he said the current isolationist regime is in a state of war mentality and is pursuing a nuclear programme to prevent regime change. North Korea has no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korean Defector
People defect from North Korea for political, material, and personal reasons. Defectors flee to various countries, mainly South Korea. In South Korea, they are referred to by several terms, including "northern refugees" and "new settlers". Towards the end of the North Korean famine of the 1990s, there was a steep increase in defections, reaching a peak in 1998 and 1999. Since then, some of the main reasons for the falling number of defectors have been strict border patrols and inspections, forced deportations, the costs of defection, and the end of the mass famine that swept the country when Soviet aid ceased with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The most common strategy for defectors is to cross the China–North Korea border into the Chinese provinces of Jilin or Liaoning. About 76% to 84% of defectors interviewed in China or South Korea came from the North Korean provinces bordering China. From China, defectors usually flee to a third country, due to China being a rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Realist
Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always uses a form of descriptive or critical realism. The term is sometimes more narrowly used for an art movement that flourished in the interwar period as a reaction to the hardships and problems suffered by common people after the Great Crash. In order to make their art more accessible to a wider audience, artists turned to realist portrayals of anonymous workers as well as celebrities as heroic symbols of strength in the face of adversity. The goal of the artists in doing so was political as they wished to expose the deteriorating conditions of the poor and working classes and hold the existing governmental and social systems accountabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Broinowski
Anna Broinowski is a Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Her feature documentaries are ''Forbidden Lie$'', about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri, cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium, ''Aim High in Creation!'' (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers, and ''Pauline Hanson: Please Explain'' (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson. Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include '' Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident'', about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq, ''Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You'', about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst, ''Hell Bento!!'', about the Japanese cultural underground, and ''Sexing the Label'' (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s. Early Life Broinowski was born during 1969 in Tokyo, Japan. She is the daughter of Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski and academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Shim Chong (film)
''The Tale of Shim Chong'' () is a 1985 North Korean musical film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It is based on the traditional story of the same name. The story centers on Shim Chong, the daughter of a poor blind farmer. The peasant signs a deal with a monk to deliver 300 sacks of rice in return of his sight, but is unable to deliver the goods. Shim Chong agrees to be sacrificed to the God of the Sea on behalf of sailors who wish to appease the deity. She is thrown into the sea and meets the god who praises her for her filial piety. Shim Chong returns to the surface inside a giant orchid that fishermen take to the king of the land. The king falls in love with her and helps her find her desperate father who has gone missing by organizing a feast for all the blind people in the kingdom. ''The Tale of Shim Chong'' was made when Shin and his wife Choi Eun-hee, who plays the part of Shim Chong's mother, were abducted by North Korea. The two were allowed to complete the filming of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
