Under the Sun

Under the Sun

  • Director: Vitaliy Manskiy
  • Countries of origin: Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Latvia
  • Language: Korean
  • Release date: April 12, 2016
  • Also known as: Under solen
  • "Under the Sun" is a documentary film directed by Vitas Mansky, which was screened at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2015   .
    The film records the process of Jin Mi joining the Youth League and participating in the preparations for the celebration of the "Day of the Sun", the birthday of former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung   .

    Details

    • Release date April 12, 2016
    • Filming locations Pyongyang, North Korea
    • Production companies Vertov Studio, Saxonia Entertainment, Hypermarket Film

    Box office

    Budget

    €390,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $105,036

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $15,454

    Gross worldwide

    $305,993

    Movie reviews

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    • By Corene 2022-04-22 07:01:54

      Yep. .

      When I saw how I felt when I was a child, in kindergarten, when I danced erratically, and when I shook my head vigorously in the primary school chorus, I was criticized. It was a time and feeling that had no human feelings, only discipline. People under discipline can feel fear, powerlessness, no one to protect you, no freedom, and everything is familiar. Even buses, factories, workers’ identities, and styles of clothes can be thought of in China in the early 1990s. This is a dislocation of...

    • By Uriel 2022-04-22 07:01:54

      big brother is everywhere

      When I finished reading "1984" in a hurry, I had the idea of ​​wanting to understand North Korea. So I searched for various documentaries or speeches about North Korea on the Internet, trying to understand this nation as objectively as possible, but I found that whether it was the Japanese NHK with a good production level or the English teacher who fled from North Korea in a hurry, all I heard was They are talking about the narrowness and despotism that pervades this nation.

      In...

    • By Charlene 2022-04-22 07:01:54

      Everyday is political

      I don't know how many twists and turns it took to complete this film, but I thought of "China" made by Italian director Antonioni in 1972. Well, this movie must be fixed. Compared with "The Tide" and "The Triumph of the Will", it is also an interesting intertext. The school activities shown in the film were common when I was in elementary school (early 1990s). As Roland Barthes said, in China, everything is a metaphor. And what you can see when the mysterious country of North Korea...

    • By Elissa 2022-04-22 07:01:54

      asphyxia

      Familiar suffocation. Quiet, too quiet. The only thing that made me feel popular and communicative in the first 15 minutes was when the director instructed a family of three on how to act (by the way, although the acting was stiff, the lines were much stronger than ours, the articulation was clear, and the mouth was open. ). I opened the bullet wood at station B and watched it, but I don't know what to laugh at. At present, I have only watched it for fifteen minutes, which is a long time. I...

    • By Cade 2022-04-22 07:01:54

      Beneath the sun, there were dark clouds.

      After reading it, what impressed me the most was the close-up of Zhenmei at the end, what a lovely child, who should have grown up happily, but there was no smile from the heart on his face, and he was replaced by confusion, depression, emptiness, confusion and fear. . Sad to see it. During this time, I was a little confused, so I kept thinking about something, and bought a book to answer my doubts. What kind of education is right? I can't answer either. But I dare say that this way of...

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    • By Gennaro 2023-09-11 18:40:54

      6.5, in fact, the news network has also done the things here (your water meter is not guaranteed), but it is not so...

    • By Trudie 2023-09-06 16:30:06

      The movie was filmed from the beginning. In some places, it's just a show, and naturally it is necessary to restrain behavior. In order to promote the so-called "democratization", the director chose the angle of view curiously, preset the position, and put a big hat on the ordinary normal shooting behavior. Isn't this pure cerebral palsy behavior? There are so many perspectives of black North Korea, you chose the one with the most cerebral...

    • By Letha 2023-08-19 00:46:49

      There is sun, but no...

    • By Reanna 2023-08-10 20:01:47

      ?It can illuminate the dark, but the sun is too hot and it can make people...

    • By Amelia 2023-07-23 15:15:29

      North Korea is indeed a somewhat mysterious country, but this documentary is just so-so, deliberately creating a depressing atmosphere. Watching the barrage is quite speechless. While looking down at them with a sense of superiority and pity, I feel sympathetically, saying that seeing the shadow of China, what is different in China, and it is very different to let these complaining publicists have the soil to survive. The patriotic education in North Korea is indeed too frequent. It runs...

    Background creation

    Vitas Mansky planned to go to North Korea to make a film that would satisfy himself, audiences around the world, and North Korean partners. He obtained the script through diplomatic channels at the North Korean embassy in Russia, and was accompanied by North Korean officials. Photographed in Pyongyang. Within days of filming, Vitas Mansky found it impossible to make the film to the satisfaction of himself, the world's audience and his...
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