[KS] Another NK cinema question:

[J.Scott Burgeson]

--- Jim Hoare <jim at jhoare10.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Others will be better qualified to provide a
> detailed answer, but from
> conversations at the film studios, plus photographs
> on display, my
> impression was that Kim Jong Il had some imput into
> virtually every major
> film produced at the Pyongyang film studios from the
> mid-1960s until the
> mid-1990s. If the number of 'on the spot guidance'
> notices were to be
> believed, he wa sometimes making several visits a
> day. The film catalogues
> themselves make no mention of this, however.


Actually, there is an official booklet called "Great
Man and Cinema" that describes Kim Jong-il's various
on-the-spot visits to film productions, during which
he often criticizes the lack of authenticity on the
part of filmmakers and intervenes repeatedly to make
things more "realistic." Plenty of anecdotes here.
Plus he's "written" a multi-volume series on the
aethetics of film production...
   --Scott Bug

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