Sep 23, 2016
'The Lovers and the Despot': When Dictators Love Cinema
‘The Lovers and the Despot’: When Dictators Love Cinema
This fascinating documentary, “The Lovers and the Despot,” will some day form the basis for a romantic thriller that will hopefully not be whitewashed. The two lovers were luminaries in the South Korean film industry and they were kidnapped by the despot–Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011. This documentary opens on 23 Sept. 2016.…
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