Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea’s concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be ‘class enemies’. A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the prosperous South Korea. Some of them gather and decide to make an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp.
Production PIRAYA FILM
AUDIO: Korean, English
SUBTITLE: Romanian
awards and festivals
2008 – International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2008 – Bergen International Film Festival - Youth Jury’s Award 2009 – Amnesty International Film Festival, The Netherlands