Korea (circa.)
It is another rainy day in Pyongyang and the long boulevards of utilitarian buildings have taken on a misty shade of grey.School children do daily exercises before saluting a portrait of Kim Jong-un and adults don lapel pins depicting their leader before a day’s work at the farm or factory.
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It is another rainy day in Pyongyang and the long boulevards of utilitarian buildings have taken on a misty shade of grey. School children do daily exercises before saluting a portrait of Kim Jong-un and adults don lapel pins depicting their leader before a day’s work at the farm or factory. Tracing a form of cultural uniformity that is unfamiliar to many in the West, this is a portrait of life behind the world’s last iron curtain.
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- Release date
- Aug 31, 2020
- Runtime
- 0h 5m
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- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Brazil
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