Yodok Stories (2008)

Directed by

Andrzej Fidyk

Genre

documentary film

Country

Norway

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows North Korean refugees who escaped concentration camps and now live in South Korea. They create a musical about their traumatic experiences in the Yodok camp.

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What happens

Yodok Stories is a documentary film directed by Polish documentary screenwriter and director Andrzej Fidyk and produced by Torstein Grude. Today, more than 200,000 men, women and children face torture, starvation and murder in North Korea's concentration camps. Few survive the atrocities, yet the camps' population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'. A small group of people have managed to escape the camps and begin a new life in prosperous South Korea. The film follows some of these refugees who despite fear of persecution and death threats produce an extraordinary musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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