CinemaOSMovie · 2020 · 1h 24m

Kim Il Sung's Children

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From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. This story is a record of their lives, which used to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. There is a key to understanding how North Korea's closed political structure began and how the ‘Juche ideology’ was formed in this documentary movie. Understanding North Korea in the 1950s is an important way to understand North Korea at present.

Directed byKim Deog-young

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 24m
Language
KO
Released
June 25, 2020
Studios
DocuStory Production

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'김일성의 아이들' (KIM IL SUNG's Children) 영화 Trailer

'김일성의 아이들' (KIM IL SUNG's Children) 영화 Trailer

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Kim Deog-young

Kim Deog-young

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Directed by
Kim Deog-young
Kim Deog-young
Written by
Kim Deog-young
Kim Deog-young
Produced by
Sooyoung Lim

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