Welcome to North Korea!

5.3
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 76 min
  • Premiere: 2009. February 26.

Documentary.In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a "journey into the unknown", a tour of North Korea. That spring was the second time since 1990 that a group of Czech tourists set foot in the DPRK. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps for its citizens and doesn't hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed a view of a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by "guides". What is more, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of our own past. Which emotions do our travellers experience: sympathy, nostalgia or, in contrast, happiness that "we already have this behind us"? How does a Czech person, after being accustomed to eighteen years of freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?

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Camera

David Cysař

Camera Operator

Crew

Jan Gogola ml.

Dramaturgy

Directing

Editing

Jakub Voves

Editor

Production

Milan Kuchynka

Producer

Sound

Writing

Camera

David Cysař

Camera Operator

Crew

Jan Gogola ml.

Dramaturgy

Directing

Editing

Jakub Voves

Editor

Production

Milan Kuchynka

Producer

Sound

Writing