Newest North Korean film mimics South’s violent cinema, to disastrous results
‘A Day and a Night’ attempts to distract youth from foreign films, but in the process undermines its propaganda message
A violent scene from the new North Korean film "A Day and a Night" | Image: KCTV (Jan. 1, 2024)
North Korean state television kicked off 2024 by airing the country’s first new film in half a decade, but even for DPRK audiences, it hardly seems that this derivative work of propaganda was worth the wait.
“A Day and a Night” (하루낮 하루밤) tells the supposedly true story of a nurse named Ra Myong Ju who uncovers and foils a plot to sabotage a steel complex and kill the country’s premier in 1958.
North Korean state television kicked off 2024 by airing the country’s first new film in half a decade, but even for DPRK audiences, it hardly seems that this derivative work of propaganda was worth the wait.
“A Day and a Night” (하루낮 하루밤) tells the supposedly true story of a nurse named Ra Myong Ju who uncovers and foils a plot to sabotage a steel complex and kill the country’s premier in 1958.
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