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The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Ilâs kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movies They Were Forced to Make, and Their Daring Escape.
Before becoming the worldâs most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Koreaâs Ministry for Propaganda and all its film studios. Underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to him he took drastic steps, ordering the kidnap of Choi Eun-Hee (Madame Choi) â South Koreaâs most famous actress â and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the countryâs most famous filmmaker. But as Madame Choi and Shin Shang-Ok begin to make North Koreaâs greatest films, they hatch a plan of escape worthy of a blockbuster Hollywood ending. A Kim Jong-Il Production is that rarest of books: a wildly entertaining, cunningly told story that offers a rare glimpse into a nation still wrapped in mystery.
âGripping⦠A Kim Jong-Il Production tells the absurd, harrowing, and true story of Choi and Shin's ordeal, which reveals the importance of film as propaganda to the North Korean regime.â âEsquire.com
âThe 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-He and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-Ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book.â âThe New York Times
âAn entertaining new bookâ¦details how [Shin and Choi] finally seized their chance to seek asylumâ¦A stupefying, novelistic read.â âThe Boston Globe
âFischer's entertaining narrative paints an arresting portrait of a North Korean "theater state," forced to enact the demented script of a sociopathic tyrant.â âPublishers Weekly
âPaul Fischer's book A Kim Jong-Il Production is a highly illuminating deep dive on the middle Kim's cinematic obsessions and the film arms race between the two Koreas.â âThe Washington Post
âExhaustively researched, highly engrossing chronicle of the outrageous abduction of a pair of well-known South Korean filmmakers by the nefarious network of North Korea's Kim Jong-Il.ââKirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
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