[KS] Re: north korea/polish documentary

Charles Armstrong cra10 at columbia.edu
Sun Mar 5 19:27:51 EST 2000


"Pyongyang Diaries" is also available from Icarus FIlms in New York. I have
a brief review of it in U. of Illinois' Asian Educational  Media Service
newsletter from a few months ago. It's a good film within its limitations,
probably the best documentary in English on the DPRK.

Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Kaliher, Kenneth L. <KaliherK at usfk.korea.army.mil>
To: 'korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk' <korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: north korea/polish documentary


>For anyone in Seoul who is interested, however, "Pyongyang Diaries" IS the
>film currently being shown in conjunction with the "Made in Korea 2000
>Exhibition" of art by foreigners living in Korea, at the Ilmin Museum,
>located in the old Dong-a Ilbo building right at the Kwanghwamun
>intersection.  The 68-minute film is being shown at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4
>p.m. daily, and there is no charge, either for the film or for the rest of
>the quite interesting worthwhile exhibition.
>
>Ken Kaliher
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonid Petrov [mailto:petrov at coombs.anu.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:14 AM
> To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: north korea/polish documentary
>
> "Pyongyang Diaries" is a great piece of documentary work
>made by Solrun
> Hoaas (an Australian filmmaker of Norwegian descent) in
>1995-1997 on the
> basis of 8mm Video materials recorded during her two trips
>to NKorea for
> participation in the Pyongyang International Film Festival.
>
> Unfortunately, it is definitely not what the CNN editor was
>looking for...
>
> LEONID A. PETROV    PhD Candidate
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> Division of Pacific and Asian History
> Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
> The Australian National University
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