Directed by:
Vitaly ManskyScreenplay:
Vitaly ManskyCinematography:
Alexandra IvanovaComposer:
Kārlis AuzānsCast:
Lee Zin-MiVOD (1)
Plots(1)
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in one of the famous Korean "Spartakiads". The ritualised explosions of colour and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal, like a typical life as seen "through the looking glass". The film portrays North Korea in probably the only possible way: as an unintentional situational tragicomedy. Precisely staged film scenes duplicate principles common for life in "the most beautiful country on the eastern side of the globe": virtually horrifying selfstaging of the residents' own lives. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
- 2016 - Vitaly Mansky (Jury Prize - Documentary)
- 2016 - Vitaly Mansky (Golden Firebird Award - Documentary)
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- 2015 - Vitaly Mansky (Best Director)
- 2015 - Vitaly Mansky (Special Jury Prize)
- 2015 - Grand Prix
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- 2015 - Between the Seas: Best Central and East European Documentary Film