We all know that North Korea is a secretive kind of place. It's run by a dictator who's revered as a living god and his father and grandfather are worshiped even after death.
A Russian film crew were invited to film a documentary of a young North Korean girl and her joining of the North Korean Communist Youth league commonly known as the "Young Pioneers". They intended this to be a propaganda piece, as all North Korean works are, to show the youth of of the DPRK the proper kind of mindset to have. What they didn't intend was for all the behind the scenes footage to be filmed as well.
Basic story is nobody told the filmmakers to stop filming when they stopped a scene or the director would walk on and give direction to the actors so we see a lot that they didn't want to show. Of course North Korea wasn't happy with this, blamed the film crew of sabotaging their movie and promptly kicked them out of the country. But they didn't confiscate their film and this documentary is what we get.
While it's not necessarily a scathing expose of what goes on behind the curtains, it is bad enough that it shows some of the corruption, rot and revisionism that North Korea is famous for trying to hide.
A Russian film crew were invited to film a documentary of a young North Korean girl and her joining of the North Korean Communist Youth league commonly known as the "Young Pioneers". They intended this to be a propaganda piece, as all North Korean works are, to show the youth of of the DPRK the proper kind of mindset to have. What they didn't intend was for all the behind the scenes footage to be filmed as well.
Basic story is nobody told the filmmakers to stop filming when they stopped a scene or the director would walk on and give direction to the actors so we see a lot that they didn't want to show. Of course North Korea wasn't happy with this, blamed the film crew of sabotaging their movie and promptly kicked them out of the country. But they didn't confiscate their film and this documentary is what we get.
While it's not necessarily a scathing expose of what goes on behind the curtains, it is bad enough that it shows some of the corruption, rot and revisionism that North Korea is famous for trying to hide.