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An Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction SelectionLibrary Journal Top Ten Book of the Year The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Ils kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movies They Were Forced to Make, and Their Daring Escape.Before becoming the worlds most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Koreas Ministry for Propaganda and all its film studios. Underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to him he took drastic steps, ordering the kidnap of Choi Eun-Hee (Madame Choi) - South Koreas most famous actress - and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the countrys most famous filmmaker. But as Madame Choi and Shin Shang-Ok begin to make North Koreas greatest films, they hatch a plan of escape worthy of a blockbuster Hollywood ending. A Kim Jong-Il Production is that rarest of books: a wildly entertaining, cunningly told story that offers a rare glimpse into a nation still wrapped in mystery. Gripping... A Kim Jong-Il Production tells the absurd, harrowing, and true story of Choi and Shins ordeal, which reveals the importance of film as propaganda to the North Korean regime. --Esquire.comThe 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-He and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-Ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischers gripping and surprisingly timely new book. --The New York TimesAn entertaining new book...details howShin and Choi] finally seized their chance to seek asylum...A stupefying, novelistic read. --The Boston Globe Fischers entertaining narrative paints an arresting portrait of a North Korean theater state, forced to enact the demented script of a sociopathic tyrant. --Publishers Weekly Paul Fischers book A Kim Jong-Il Production is a highly illuminating deep dive on the middle Kims cinematic obsessions and the film arms race between the two Koreas. --The Washington PostExhaustively researched, highly engrossing chronicle of the outrageous abduction of a pair of well-known South Korean filmmakers by the nefarious network of North Koreas Kim Jong-Il.--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Flatiron Books
