The Lovers and the Despot

  • Documentary
  • History
9/22/2016
98
NR

They were kidnapped by their biggest fan

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

Directors:
Robert Cannan
Ross Adam
Writers:
Jim Hession
Robert Cannan
Ross Adam
  • cinema on cinema
  • kidnapping
  • movie business
  • 1970s
  • dictatorship
  • hong kong
  • docudrama
  • ex-husband ex-wife relationship
  • communism
  • communist propaganda
  • 1980s
  • portrait of a filmmaker
  • north korea
  • inter-korean relations

Videos

Cast

  • Paul Courtenay Hyu
    Shin Sang-ok
  • Yuna Shin
    Choi Eun-hee
  • Choi Eun-hee
    Self - Actress / Various Roles
  • Michael Yi
    Self - US Intelligence Officer
  • Shin Jeong-kyun
    Self - Choi and Shin's Son
  • Shin Myung-yim
    Self - Choi and Shin's Daughter
  • Choi Kyung-ok
    Self - Choi's Brother
  • Iain T. A. Hall
    Self - RHK Police Inspector (1975-79)
  • Pierre Rissient
    Self - Film Critic
  • Lee Jang-ho
    Self - Filmmaker
  • David Straub
    Self - US SD Officer (1984-86)
  • Jang Jin-sun
    Self - Kim's Former Court Poet
  • Nishida Tetsuo
    Self - Film Critic
  • Derek Malcolm
    Self - Film Critic
  • Dean S. Robinson
    Self - Vienna US Embassy Officer (1985-87)
  • Shin Sang-ok
    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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