A documentary film created by one of the most famous Romanian war reporters, Adelin Petrişor, after the visit he made to the toughest communist concentration camp still existent in the world – North Korea –, together with his colleague from TVR, the cameraman Cătălin Popescu. The two were the first Romanian TV journalists to be allowed access to the country isolated by the rest of the world after 1989. Their experience materialized in the photo album “Noth Korea, a Concentration Camp as Large as a Country” and the nonfictional volume “The Country with Just One Fat Man”. The screening of the film is followed by a Q&A with its director.
A true story of a young leader of pro-democracy movement in 1980s. In September 1985, when the ideology between South and North Korea is sharply opposed, South Korean democracy activist Kim Geun-tae was forcefully dragged to Namyoung, where the government’s national security agency is located at. There he met Lee Doo-han, the professional interrogator who was notorious for the ruthless torture. With a distorted patriotism toward the South Korean military regime, Lee detained Kim over 20 days and tortured him with water and electricity, until he confessed that he was under the control of North Korea. After 20 years from that nightmare, Kim confronts Lee again. Staring at Lee with vacant eyes, Kim asks himself: “Will I ever be able to forgive him?” Screenwriter and director of both fiction and documentary films, Chung Ji-young is considered the most representative South-Korean filmmaker of the 1990s. For the critic Darcy Paquet (KoreanFilm.org), NATIONAL SECURITY was “the best Korean film of 2012”.
