KIM IL SUNG's Children
Children who were shaped by Kim Il-Sung's ideal
instead of Stalin’s.
From 1950 to 1953 One hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War.
With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans.
While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’.
As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe.
Children who were shaped by Kim IL Sung's ideals, instead of Stalin's. Their lives remained unknown by the rest of the world until now.
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Deog Young KimDirector
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Deog Young KimWriter
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Sooyoung LimProducer
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Junhee YouProducer
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Georgeta MircioiuKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 25 minutes
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Completion Date:February 5, 2020
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Production Budget:200,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Korea, Republic of
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Country of Filming:Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania
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Language:Bulgarian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Romanian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Rome International Movie Awards 'Best Feature Documentary Award'Rome
Italy
November 2, 2020
Italian premiere
Best Feature Documentary Award -
Eastern Europe Film Festival
Silver Award -
International New York Film FestivalNew York
United States
June 10, 2020
North American Premiere
Official Selection -
Nice international Film FestivalNice
France
July 1, 2020
European premiere
Official Seletion -
Los Angeles Television, Script, and Film FestivalLos Angeles
United States
Semi-Finalist -
Santa Cruz International Film FestivalBuenos Aires
Argentina
May 10, 2020
South American premiere
official seletion -
DUMBO Film FestivalNew York
United States
Official Selection -
Cyrus International Film Festival of Toronto
Canada
Semi-Finalist -
Pyeongchang International Film Festival
Korea, Republic of
Officail Invitation -
Global Migration Film Festival (UN)
Official Selection -
Golden Tree International Documentary Film FestivalBerlin
Germany
Official Selection -
Rasnov Film and Histories Festival
Romania
Official Selection -
Tokyo Lift-off film festivalTokyo
Japan
June 15, 2020
official seletion -
Polish International Film Festival
Official Selection -
Deptford Cinema On Demand
United Kingdom
Official Selection
Distribution Information
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Janson MediaSales AgentCountry: United StatesRights: All Rights
born in 1965, Seoul, South Korea
working for making documentary for 30 years.
director and writer
I've been filmming in 5 Eastern European countries, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech, and Hungary, to find out the secret and hidden historical evidences.
It took a pretty long time to complete this documentary for 15 years. Finally We found over 100 pictures, 35mm documentary film, 50 letters from North Korean orphans sent to Eastern European people.
Also, I could Interview with Eastern European classmates of North Korean orphans and teachers who shared memories at those times in the 1950s.
This work contains precious records about humanism in the war period.
“Human history was a history of endless war,
and the biggest victims of the war were women and children.
There are many works that deal with war heroes and battles,
No work seriously considered the issue of war orphans.
This historical event is a story of conscience that mankind must hold.
In the 1950s, when many people dreamed of socialist cosmopolitan,
but there was only KIM IL SUNG who had dreamed about his own kingdom.
That was starting point the destiny of North Korea, Unusual, Declusive country.”
(Director, KIM DEOG-YOUNG)