Granted unprecedented permission to shoot inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, English filmmaker Daniel Gordon grants us a rare glimpse of daily life inside the most secretive nations on earth, and it's just as weird as you thought. Gordon traveled to North Korea in the spring of 2003, shortly before the second Gulf War. His mission was to shoot a documentary about the bogglingly elaborate Mass Games, a grand, socialist-realist extravaganza that's considered to be the largest choreographed spectacle in the world. Divided into three segments — gymnastics, backdrops, music — the Mass Games stand as the supreme image of the communist ideal; employing close ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins