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Yodok Stories

Yodok Stories

Inside North Korea

Today, more than 300.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea’s concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what face 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.

Despite death threats and many obstacles the musical becomes a tour de force for this ensemble of refugees. For them a possibility opens to talk about their experiences and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps.


Technical Specifications

Year 2008
Length
83 min, 58 min
Languages
Korean, English
Production companies
Piraya Film, MG Production
Production countries
Norway, Poland
Sales/Distribution
Festival distribution: The Norwegian film Institute. International sales: Kudos Family
Format
DCP / HDCam
World Premiere
Planete Doc Review, Poland, May 12 2008
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266731


Gallery


Awards

2010 Hollywood Eagle for Best Documentary, Polish Film Festival, USA
2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival: In the Spirit of Freedom Award
2009 Nominated for Best Cinematography, Plus Camerimage, Poland
2008 Joris Ivens Awards Finalist, IDFA, The Netherlands
2008 Planete Doc Review, Warsaw: Youth Jury Award
2008 Bergen International Film Festival: Youth Jury’s Documentary Award

Festivals

2012
North Korean Human Rights Film Festival in Toronto, Canada

2011
Input, Seoul, South Korea

2010
The Art of the Document Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Brisbane Underground Film Festival, Australia
Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Greece
Victoria Film Festival, Canada

2009
Plus Camerimage, Poland
Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
Århus filmfestival, Denmark
Sheffield Docu Fest, UK
Verzio Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest
People in Peril, Bratislava
DMZ Docs, South Korea
Document 7 – Int’l Human Rights Film Festival Glasgow
Nagoya Refugee Film Festival, Japan
Oakland Int. Film Festival, USA
International Culture Forum, Sweden
Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival, Reykjavik
Global Peace Film Festival, Orlando, USA
Holocaust and Genocide International Films, Melbourne, Australia
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel
Senza Frontieri – Without Borders Film Festival, Rome
Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver
Tribeca Film Festival, USA
Den norske dokumentarfilmfestivalen, Volda
Beldocs, Beograd, Serbia
Movies That Matter – Amnesty International Film Festival, Serbia
Belfast Film Festival
African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, Milano
One World Film Festival, Romania
Amnesty International Film Festival Movies That Matters, The Netherlands
One World Film Festival, Prague
Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains, Geneva

2008
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival
Planete DocReview, Warsaw, Poland


Credits



WITH GRATITUDE
KIM JOUNG SOON
JUNG SUN SAN
AN MYONG CHOL
LEE YOUNG KUK
KIM TAE JIN
KIM HYOK
LEE MIN BOK

DIRECTOR
ANDRZEJ FIDYK

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
TORE VOLLAN
TORSTEIN GRUDE

CAMERA ASSISTANT
SUNG TE

EDITOR
JAN MIKOŁAJ MIRONOWICZ PSM
MARCIN MIRONOWICZ

EDITING CONSULTANT
BARBARA PAWŁOWSKA

ASSISTANT EDITOR
HELGA MARIA SULEN SUND

PROMO EDITORS
NILS BØRGE SANDVIK
MORTEN RØRVIG

COMPOSER
KYUNG CHAN CHA
BARTŁOMIEJ WOŹNIAK

SOUND RECORDIST
STASZEK KOLENDA

SOUND POSTPRODUCTION
STUDIO SEGMENT - BARTŁOMIEJ WOŹNIAK,
MICHAŁ WRÓBLEWSKI

FOLEY ARTIST
JAN WOŹNIAK

MUSICIANS
MARIA POMIANOWSKA - STRINGS
ROBERT SIWAK - PERCUSSION
JAKUB LUBOWICZ - PIANO
BARTŁOMIEJ WOŹNIAK - KEYBOARDS, SAMPLES

SOUND ENGINEER
SEBASTIAN WITKOWSKI

SOUND MIX
BARTŁOMIEJ WOŹNIAK

NORTH-KOREA CONSULTANT
JOANNA HOSANIAK

TRANSLATORS
ANNA PARADOWSKA
JOANNA ROGULSKA
KIM SOON-HYUNG
KIM HEE-JUNG
ROGER DOMAGALSKI
RENETTE MARSHALL
HELLE GULLOWSEN – CONVERTO EXPRESS

ACCOUNTANT
VASSDAL ERIKSEN AS

AUDITOR
HELGE FROSTA

INSURANCE
IF SKADEFORSIKRING – LYBERG & PARTNERE

ACCOMODATION
SEOUL HOTEL

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
MAREN BERG-THOMASSEN
MARI LINN LARSEN
HELGA MARIA SULEN SUND
TRYGVE SVENSSON
CHRISTER BJØRNØ HANSEN

COLOR CORRECTION AND EFFECTS
ALEKSANDER WINECKI

GRAPHICAL DESIGNERS
ARNE BRU HAUG
TORSTEIN GRUDE
ERLING GRINRØD


PRODUCER
TORSTEIN GRUDE

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
BJARTE MØRNER TVEIT

CO-PRODUCER
MIROSŁAW GRUBEK

PRODUCTION MANAGER
RYSZARD URBANIAK

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
TORSTEIN GRUDE – PIRAYA FILM AS
BJARTE MØRNER TVEIT – PIRAYA FILM AS
MIROSLAW GRUBEK – MG PRODUCTION
THERESE JEBSEN – THE RAFTO FOUNDATION
JAN RAMSTAD – THE RAFTO FOUNDATION

THIS FILM WAS SUPPORTED BY
EURIMAGES
THE NORWEGIAN FILM FUND
FALLEN 8
POLISH FILM INSTITUTE
THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FOUNDATION, OSLO
TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A.
FILMKRAFT ROGALAND
THE NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SPAREBANKEN VEST
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
NORDIC FILM & TELEVISION FUND
WESTERN NORWEGIAN FILM CENTRE
NORWEGIAN CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS

THANK YOU
MACIEJ NOWICKI
KAROLINA OPONOWICZ
RANDI SCHULZ
MARIANNE STENERUD
EIVIND DRIVFLAADT
DARIUSZ JABŁOŃSKI
GERDA MØRNER TVEIT
EGIL ÅGE TVEIT
ELLINOR GRUDE
EGIL GRUDE
SOLRUN SAMNØY
TOM CHRISTER LILLETVEDT / TEKEN AS
SIW ANGELL OLSEN
STIAN INDREVOLL
IGOR BLAŽEVIČ
PETER M. BECK
FILMKONTAKT NORD
HEIDI ELISE CHRISTENSEN
ANNE KÖNCHKE
TORKEL GJØRV
CLAUDIA JUNG
ELISABETH DRØYER
BETSY KAWAMURA
RUTH GRUNG
HEGE JAER
GUNTA VENGE
SVEIN DYBDAL
SUSANNE & ASGEIR – LYS.NO
TERJE KALHEIM
LINDA HÅKELIA
SUZANNE GOL
MATS THORSEN
PÅL CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
MARGRETHE AANESTAD
ØRJAN MYDLAND
HANS JØRGEN BRUN
OLA HUNNES
SANGHI CLAIRE

MUSICAL AFTER AN IDEA BY ANDRZEJ FIDYK



MUSICAL CREW

DIRECTOR
JUNG, SUNG-SAN

WRITER
CHEOLHWAN
HYUK AHN,
SANGHAK PARK
SEONGMIN KIM

NORTH-KOREAN DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER
YUNGSOON KIM

COMPOSER
KYUNG CHAN CHA

LYRICIST
HAE JUNG YOO

MUSICAL DIRECTOR
HAEJIN KIM

DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER
JAEIK OH

LIGHTING DESIGNER
KYUNGSOO MIN

SOUND DESIGNER
SUNGWOOK KIM

LIGHTING DIRECTOR
SUNGHAN CHO

SOUND DIRECTOR
SUHYOUNG KIM

SCENIC DESIGNER
SONGHEE JIN

STAGE DIRECTOR
SOAE KIM

PROPERTY
KEUNWOO CHOI

COSTUME DESIGNER
HYUNJUNG KIM

MAKE-UP DESIGNER
SEUNGEUN LEE

MUSIC ARRANGEMENT
CHULMIN KIM

ASSISTANT STAGE DIRECTOR
SUAH HONG
HYUNCHUL PARK
SUNGSIK KONG

EXECUTIVE MANAGER
YOUNGHEE LEE

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
NAMCHANG LEE

INT’L AFFAIRS’ MANAGER
YUJIN LEE

PR & MARKETING STAFF
TAEWOOK HUH
YONGCHAN KIM
SOOHYUN KWON
HWAYOUNG OH

MUSICAL CAST
YUNJUNG CHOI
JAECHUNG YIM
JUNKYUM KIM
KYUNGSOO CHAE
JONGHWA RHYU
SUNDONG KIM
MINHEE SUH
JAEMIN LEE
WANKYU PARK
SOONCHUL YOO
JUNGWOOK NOH
KYUNGMIN YIM
SOOJUNG KWAK
CHANGKYUNG LEE
JUNGAH HAN

ENSEMBLES
MINCHUL KIM, JANGMIN JEON, SEUNGKOOK YU, HWAJIN YUN, JUNGHAN KIM,
MIA LEE, SEIN KIM, SUNGJI HAN, NAKYUNG YIM, JINSUN JEON, SUNGMI LEE, SANGHWA KIM,
DONGJIN KIM, BUMHO KIM, YUNJAE UHM, MINJIN SHIN, EUMHEE KIM, YUMI LEE, EUNHA KIM, YUNSANG YU


FROM THE ARCHIVES OF TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A.
THE EXCERPTS OF THE FILM “THE PARADE” WERE USED.
DIRECTOR ANDRZEJ FIDYK, PHOTOGRAPHY KRZYSZTOF KALUKIN, MIKOŁAJ NESTEROWICZ,
PRODUCTIOM TELEWIZJA POLSKA SA.


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