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Yodok Stories

Yodok Stories, Norway, 2009, 82 min, DVD, Arts and Culture, Politics
In North Korea, over 300.000 men, women and children languish in Nazi-style concentration camps, routinely subjected to torture, rape, beatings and starvation. Most, even young children, will never leave. One of the largest camps is Yodok.
Against all odds, a handful of prisoners have escaped to freedom in prosperous South Korea, including accomplished theater director Jung Sung San. To bring their stories to light, Jung writes and produces a controversial Broadway-inspired musical based on life in the camps. A box office success, this tour de force proves heroic as the defectors confront their nightmarish past and present-day death threats. At once inspiring and darkly disturbing, Yodok Stories reveal the enduring potential for beauty and art to rise from the depths of human suffering.
Director:
Andrzej Fidyk
Producer:
Torstein Grude
World Sales:
Oddleiv Vik
Director of photography:
Tore Vollan
Screenplay:
Andrzej Fidyk
Editor:
Jan Mikolaj Mironowicz
Sound:
Bartłomiej Woźniak
Languages:
Korean
Subtitles:
English
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4014 Stavanger, Norway
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Planet Doc Review Warsaw 2008 - Screened as Work in progress, Poland
Bergen International Film Festival 2008, Norway
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2008, The Netherlands
Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains Geneva 2009, Switzerland
/ One World Film Festival Prague 2009, Czech Republic
Amnesty International Film Festival Movies That Matters 2009, The Netherlands
One World Film Festival 2009, Romania
African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival 2009 Milano, Italy
Belfast Film Festival 2009, Ireland / Beldocs Beograd 2009, Serbia
The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Volda 2009, Norway
Tribeca Film Festival 2009, USA
Doxa Documentary Film Festival Vancouver 2009, Canada

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