Welcome to North Korea!
2009 · 76 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 164 VOTES · DIR. Linda Kallistová Jablonská
Overview
Documentary.In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a "journey into the unknown", a tour of North Korea. That spring was the second time since 1990 that a group of Czech tourists set foot in the DPRK. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps for its citizens and doesn't hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed a view of a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by "guides". What is more, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of our own past. Which emotions do our travellers experience: sympathy, nostalgia or, in contrast, happiness that "we already have this behind us"? How does a Czech person, after being accustomed to eighteen years of freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?
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00:00:04 HBO and Negativ present
00:02:34 It reacted so it's not possible to get it into the plane. But out of the plane...
00:04:48 Everything interests me, the way they lay curbs, the grading...
00:09:04 to a system of rotating restaurants.
00:13:06 Great Leader Kim Il-sung
00:15:27 kind of poor, but that's the same in a lot of countries.
00:18:27 I don't understand how these people can stuff their faces...
00:20:42 -Really? -Yes, seriously, I’ve photographed it.
00:25:17 Sure it's different from anywhere else in the world
00:27:06 and we were similarly trained, and none of us took it though we wanted to.
00:29:20 I got close to a roadblock to take a photo
00:31:47 Any book in Czech you can think of. Electrotechnical Measurement
00:37:43 that the aggressors were them.
00:41:47 It's not possible or else I would've tried it long ago.
00:44:42 because the Korean War never ended.
00:48:23 It's for our safety.
00:50:39 I’m actually standing with one foot in North and one foot in South Korea.
00:54:27 It's a gift from Indonesian president Sukarno.
00:56:39 Now it's much more lenient.
01:00:08 I think it's stupid to act like an extremist.
01:02:52 Shall we take one more picture in front of him?
01:07:23 It's the last night so we can hit the bar.
01:11:42 And off we go. And good-bye to you too, secret police boys.
01:14:38 Sound Editing