Inside North Korea

This documentary explores the hidden face of North Korea as seen through its cinema, a cinema that has never been shown abroad.

By interviewing people In the street in Pyongyang, people who are also committed filmgoers, we discover that this essentially realistic cinema tells us not more that it intended to.
Is such films as We Live Here (1999), The Tree Grows on its Roots (1999) and The Secretary of the Daho Canton (2000), the emerging individualism, the privileges of the military, the delinquent youth sent to re-education camps, and even the famine, are openly depicted.
The images revealed in this documentary are so realistic that they will not only underline our current perception of North Korea, but at the same time deny those which we are ordinarily accustomed to.

This film analyzes the nature of the regime which naively strives—at the cost of superhuman resistance to outside pressures—to bring about the triumph of Koreanism.