Vitaly Mansky spent more than 2 years trying to get access to shoot a documentary about the solitary country North Korea. When he did get access he began to see that every single aspect of his film was being directed by the government trying to paint a rosy picture about the dictatorship rule in the country. But that was not what he had envisioned for Under the Sun, a new documentary in theatres across North America this month.
The director had to resort to covert methods in order to get at least some kind of real action on the film as the government monitored every aspect closely.
Manskey born and raised in the Soviet Union, had spent more than two years negotiating access to the Hermit Kingdom so that he could create a documentary giving the outside world an inside look at the lives of an average North Korean family.
“We’ve shot in difficult places, but we never imagined how much control they would impose,” said Simone Baumann, one of the film’s producers from Germany.
The film follows eight-year-old Zin-mi and her parents as she prepares to join North Korea’s Children’s Union. But government control of the film was total. So He kept the cameras rolling between takes, capturing the hovering officials as they emerged from behind the scenes to direct his film. And just like that, the curtain vanished.
“It really does call into question other documentaries that say they were made with no interference at all,” said journalist and professor Robert Boynton. “I’m not sure I believe that anymore.” He interviewed Mansky extensively through a translator for the New York Times and has interviewed several North Korean defectors for his book on the country’s abduction of Japanese citizens, The Invitation Only Zone.
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