[KS] Re: north korea/polish documentary

[Changzoo Song]

I remember the film titled something like "Defilada" (in Polish) which means 
"Parade" or "March." The documentary film was about 50 mintues long and 
showed variuos parade scenes and some monuments. The parades included one of 
the anniversary of the Commuinist Party while the monuments included Kim Il 
Sung's native home and the Juche Tower. The film was taken in many places 
including Pyongyang, Mt. Kumgang and a small city in Hamgyong-do. One 
interesting scene in the film, I remember, was how North Korean people 
looked very tired and leathargic when they were rehearsing a welcoming 
parade for a foreign delegation arriving at a local airport. They would sit 
or lie down on the ground while the parade leader tried to persuade them to 
continue the exercise. However, at the news of their arrival, they would all 
stand up at once and fervently welcome the delegation. I don't recall if the 
film showed any specific scenes of North Korean people's daily life. The 
film was dubbed in English, but the narrator would pronounce "Kim Jong Il" 
as "Kim Yong Il," because of the different prounciation of "J" in European 
languages. I will find the whereabouts of the film soon when I visit Poland.

Changzoo Song
CEP Visiting Lecturer
Faculty of Social Sciences
Riga Stradina University
16 Dzirciema Street
Riga, Latvia 1007

Tel (371)2409144 Fax (371)7828155



>From: Peter.Banaschak at t-online.de (Peter Banaschak)
>Reply-To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
>To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: north korea/polish documentary
>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:28:17 +0100
>
>
> > >>      Several years ago, I saw a documentary made by a Polish film 
>maker in
> > >North Korea. He shot about 100 hours of film in pre-Solidarity days, 
>and
> > >took it back with him to Poland to develop and edit.
>
>If my memory doesn't fail me, the film ran (in Germany at
>least) under a title
>like 'Parade' -- it moved around some state event (the 40th
>anniversary celebrations)...
>
>Peter



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