Highest rated movie: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Lowest rated movie: Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (2015)
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Looking for reviews of Kim Il-sung movies? Cinafilm has a total of 105 reviews across 4 movies.
Movies starring Kim Il-sung have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - released in 2010 - is Kim Il-sung's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 13 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kim Il-sung is Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang - released in 2015 - with a score of 55% based on 1 reviews.
Kim Il-sung was the leader of North Korea DPRK from 1948 to 1994. Kim began his career in the North Korean leadership in 1968 as the head of the state’s propaganda and agitation department, the main organ of which was the film studios. He amassed arguably the world’s largest personal film collection: over 20,000 bootlegged 35mm screening copies from all around the world that, due to the DPRK’s stringent information-control policies, he was the only person in the country authorised to watch.
His first mission was to use cinema as a propaganda tool to “educate” the people. Before 1945, North Korea hadn’t existed; Korea had been a unified kingdom for hundreds of years – until 1910, when it was swallowed up by the Japanese empire, which didn’t divide it. The border that now separates the two Korean states was drawn on a map at the end of the second world war as a compromise between the US and the USSR, who had jointly defeated the Japanese. The Kims’ mandate, from the first, was to convince the people that “their” Korea in the north was more legitimate than the “other” Korea in the south, which, they said, had a puppet government secretly run by Americans. Using books and plays, but mainly film, the Kims rewrote Korean history to paint themselves as revolutionary freedom-fighters, the last bastion of resistance against Yankee imperialism.
Kim Il-sung has acted in films with Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il, Barack Obama and Dennis Rodman.
Kim Il-sung has worked with these film directors: Álvaro Longoria, Robert Cannan, Ross Adam and Andrei Ujică.
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